BOSTON, MA, January 31, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Janet Giele has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process. Dr. Giele was also selected for inclusion in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in the World and Who's Who of American Women for her outstanding contributions to the field of higher education.
Highly regarded in the field of education for her work as a sociologist and educator, Dr. Giele has met with success in her career because of her leadership and pioneering work to understand the vast changes in women's lives and American families. Retired since 2004, she concluded her career as a professor with the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. She joined the faculty in 1976 as an associate professor and progressed through the ranks, becoming a professor of sociology, social policy and women's studies. In 1990 she founded the Family and Children's Policy Center and led it until 1996. During that period, she also served one year as Heller's acting dean. Her research has been funded by grants from the Ford Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the Lilly Endowment, the National Institute on Aging, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others. In recognition of her longstanding interest in women's changing lives and accomplishments, she received the first Distinguished Life Course award in 2013 from Pepperdine University. After her junior year with a Barrett Scholarship to sudy at L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, she received her Bachelor of Arts with honors in French and Sociology from Earlham College in 1956. With a National Woodrow Wilson Fellowship she attended Harvard University where she received a Master of Arts in 1958 and a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1961. Dr. Giele is known for her early research on the women's temperance and suffrage movements of the 19th century and her extensive study of women's changing lives, family policy, and sociology of the life course. Early in the women's movement of the 1970s, she was invited by the Ford Foundation to serve as a Principal Consultant to its newly formed commission on the rights and responsibilities of women. This assignment coincided with an NSF grant to study the development of American family policy and appointments as a Ford faculty fellow at Harvard University and fellow of the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Giele is the author or editor of a number of books and professional articles, including 'Women and the Future: Changing Sex Roles in Modern America," "Two Paths to Women's Equality: Temperance, Suffrage and the Origins of American Feminism," "Family Policy and the American Safety Net," and "Women's Equality in the Workplace," among many others. She is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Eastern Sociological Society, and the International Sociological Association. Since her retirement she has continued her scholarly research and writing and has become more involved in her community where she has served as an elected member of Wellesley Town Meeting since 2007 and helped to form the first neighborhood conservation district in the town. Dr. Giele has also extended her long-standing interest in public policy related to the family and aging by taking a leading role as founding president in organizing Wellesley Neighbors, a virtual retirement community that is part of the national village-to-village movement for helping seniors to remain living in their own homes and communities.
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