Marian Baird | |
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Born | Marian Pam Baird |
Nationality | Australian |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Sydney |
Thesis | Transforming industrial relations: Brownfield sites, greenfield sites and commitment systems at Colgate-Palmolive (2000) |
Academic work | |
Sub-discipline | Gender equality in workforce relations |
Institutions | University of Sydney |
Marian Pam Baird AO FASSA is an Australian academic researcher,Professor of Gender and Employment Relations and Head of the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney,and a member of the Australian Fair Work Commission. She is also Foundation Director,Women and Work Research Group. Her research focuses on all aspects of women in the workforce over their lifespan.
Baird completed her secondary education at Stella Maris College in Manly,New South Wales. [1] 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. [2] [3] Her 2000 thesis was titled "Transforming industrial relations:Brownfield sites,greenfield sites and commitment systems at Colgate-Palmolive". [4]
Baird has contributed to government policy in the area of paid parental leave. [5]
She is joint editor-in-chief of the Journal of Industrial Relations, [6] former president [7] and current (as of 2020) committee member of the Industrial Relations Society of New South Wales. [8]
In March 2023,Baird was appointed by Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Tony Burke as a part-time Expert Panel Member on the Fair Work Commission for five years. [9]
In 2014 Baird won the Edna Ryan Award "for making positive change for women in the workforce." [3]
Baird was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2015. [10] In the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours 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". [11]
In 2018 Apolitical named Baird in the top 100 people in the world working in gender policy. [12]
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: CS1 maint: others (link)Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American multinational consumer products company headquartered on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company specializes in the production, distribution, and provision of household, health care, personal care, and veterinary products.
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Stella Maris College is an independent Roman Catholic high school for girls, located on the northern end of Manly Beach in Manly, on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1931 by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, the College provides a religious and general education in the Benedictine tradition for approximately 950 girls from Year 7 to Year 12 from the surrounding area and from overseas. Stella Maris is a day school so international students board with homestay families in the local area. In recent years governance of the College has passed to Good Samaritan Education, established by the Sisters for the continued canonical oversight of all the Congregation's schools.
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