Maureen Baker FRSNZ (born 1948) is a Canadian–New Zealand sociologist and an emeritus professor of the University of Auckland. She has been a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi since 2009. Baker's work focused on children, families and gender.

Academic career[edit]

Baker was born in 1948 in Toronto.^[1] She obtained a BA from the University of Toronto in 1970, and went on to complete an M.A. in 1972. Her PhD from the University of Alberta, in 1975, was titled Women as a Minority Group in the Academic Profession.^[2] For seven years, Baker was a policy adviser to the Canadian government. She also worked as an associate professor and professor at McGill University before moving to New Zealand in 1998.^[2]

Much of Baker's work compares family situations in the three former British colonies of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, in all of which she has worked.^[3] Baker has written eleven books and authored three others. Her book Families: Changing Trends in Canada has had six editions.^[3] Baker retired in 2014, after sixteen years at Auckland University,^[3] and is an emeritus professor.^[2]

Awards and honours[edit]

Baker was elected as a Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of the Humanities in 2008,^[2] and as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2009.^[3]

Selected works[edit]

• Claire Cartwright; Maureen Baker, Stepparenting, doi:10.4135/9781452274447.N416, Wikidata Q58034180
• Maureen Baker (March 1995). "Eliminating Child Poverty: How Does Canada Compare?". American Review of Canadian Studies. 25 (1): 79–110. doi:10.1080/02722019509481787. ISSN 0272-2011. Wikidata Q58124441.
• Maureen Baker (1 November 1998). "Women, Family Policies and the Moral Right". Canadian Review of Social Policy (40). ISSN 0836-303X. Wikidata Q108465510.
• Maureen Baker (1995). "Family Poverty and Work/Family Conflicts: Inconsistent Social Policies". Canadian Review of Social Policy (33). ISSN 0836-303X. Wikidata Q108465575.
• Maureen Baker; Vivienne Elizabeth (17 October 2012). "A 'brave thing to do' or a normative practice? Marriage after long-term cohabitation". Journal of Sociology. 50 (4): 393–407. doi:10.1177/1440783312462165. ISSN 1440-7833. Wikidata Q108872194.
• Maureen Baker (May 2010). "Motherhood, employment and the "child penalty"". Women's Studies International Forum. 33 (3): 215–224. doi:10.1016/J.WSIF.2010.01.004. ISSN 0277-5395. Wikidata Q108872195.
• Maureen Baker (28 June 2010). "Career confidence and gendered expectations of academic promotion". Journal of Sociology. 46 (3): 317–334. doi:10.1177/1440783310371402. ISSN 1440-7833. Wikidata Q108872196.

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