Suzanne M. Bianchi (April 15, 1952, Fort Dodge, Iowa – November 4, 2013, Santa Monica, California) was an American sociologist.
Bianchi began her career as a demographer for the U.S. Census Bureau, where she remained until 1994, rising to an assistant division chief position.
[1] Among her main fields of study she focused on working mothers, researching and analyzing changes in American family life during the last decades.
[7] Bianchi's academic work explored the shrinking gender gap and how women's careers affected households.
One of her co-authors, Judith Selzer, said of her, "She always identified puzzles in the social world and tried to solve them by rigorous empirical studies.