Barbara Everitt Bryant, the first woman to lead the U.S. Census Bureau, has died at 96 years old.
Barbara Everitt Bryant, the first woman to run the U.S. Census Bureau and its leader during the contentious debate over how to compensate for undercounts of minority groups in the 1990 census, has died. She was 96.
In a blogpost, Robert Santos, the current director of the Census Bureau, described Bryant, who oversaw the 1990 count of U.S. residents, as "a trailblazer and a champion of quality survey methods.”George H.W. BushThe once-a-decade census determines how many congressional seats each state gets and the distribution of federal funding. During her tenure, which lasted until Presidenttook office in 1993, Bryant faced concerns about undercounts of minorities.
In an oral history with the Census Bureau, Bryant said she took the agency's helm just months before it started its biggest undertaking: the 1990 census. Becoming the face of what some describe as the nation’s largest nonmilitary mobilization, combined with the controversy over adjustment, gave her unexpected visibility, she said.
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