Jeanne Clare Ridley (August 28, 1925 – July 17, 2007) was an American sociologist, statistician, and demographer, known for her work on fertility.
[1][2] Ridley is known for her work on human reproduction and fertility,[1] including works on the simulation of population dynamics, foundational studies on truncation in demographic data, overviews of the changing role of women in society, and a detailed survey on the fertility behavior of women born just after the turn of the 20th century.
[2] With Mindel C. Sheps, a frequent collaborator,[1] she edited the book Public Health and Population Change: Current Research Issues (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1965).
At Columbia, she directed the Division of Demography in the International Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction.
She retired in 1990, becoming professor emerita of demography, and died of Parkinson's disease on July 17, 2007 in Silver Spring, Maryland.