Marian Pam Baird is an Australian academic researcher, Professor of Gender and Employment Relations and Head of the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the

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, and a member of the Australian

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. She is also Foundation Director, Women and Work Research Group. Her research focuses on all aspects of women in the workforce over their lifespan.

Academic career

Baird completed her secondary education at Stella Maris College in Manly, New South Wales. She graduated with a BEc (1978) and DipEd (1979), followed by a PhD (2001) in Work and Organisational Studies, all from the University of Sydney. Her 2000 thesis was titled "Transforming industrial relations: Brownfield sites, greenfield sites and commitment systems at Colgate-Palmolive". Baird has contributed to government policy in the area of paid parental leave. She is joint editor-in-chief of the Journal of Industrial Relations, former president and current (as of 2020) committee member of the Industrial Relations Society of New South Wales. In March 2023, Baird was appointed by Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

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as a part-time Expert Panel Member on the Fair Work Commission for five years.

Honours and recognition

In 2014 Baird won the Edna Ryan Award "for making positive change for women in the workforce." Baird was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2015. In the

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she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to higher education, and to women, particularly in the areas of workplace gender equality, parental leave policy and industrial relations, and to social justice". In 2018 Apolitical named Baird in the top 100 people in the world working in gender policy.

Selected works

Books

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References

External links

Marian Baird
interviewed by

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and Catherine Fox on "Women With Clout" * {{DEFAULTSORT:Baird, Marian Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Officers of the Order of Australia Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia University of Sydney alumni Academic staff of the University of Sydney Gender studies academics Australian women academics Members of the Fair Work Commission