Cora Baldock was born Corrie Vellekoop on 16 December 1935 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
[1][2] She grew up with relatives who worked in academia, which influenced her decision to study sociology at Leiden University, from which she graduated cum laude in 1960.
[1] Her research interests are in the sociology of work, women's studies, and the intersection of gender and social policy.
[2] She has highlighted and redressed in her work the lack of differentiation by sex in sociological analyses of class stratification.
[5] In it, Baldock argues volunteer work represents the features of a capitalist state and the patriarchy, by fulfilling their economic and ideological functions and maintaining their status quo.