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.
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]
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]
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