She was a founder in 2000/2001 of the "Garden of Women" ("Garten der Frauen") at the vast Ohlsdorf Cemetery on the edge of Hamburg.
In 1990 Bake started working in a senior academic and administrative role (als "wissenschaftliche Referentin") at the Hamburg region "Agency for Civic Education" ("Landeszentrale für politische Bildung").
[1][2] In 2000, with the active help of the historian-politician Silke Urbanski and of the journalist-politician Helga Diercks-Norden, Bake founded the "Garden of Women" ("Garten der Frauen") at Hamburg's Ohlsdorf Cemetery.
[8][9] At the time of the project launch Bake was asked about the gender separation implicit in the whole idea: "Are not all people equal, at least in death?".
Because the achievements of women are often not adequately valued while they are alive, they will be forgotten even more quickly after death than in the case of men".
[13] In 2009 Bake was the winner of "Hammonia 2009", presented by the Hamburg region Women's Council ("Landesfrauenrat") in recognition of her feminist political commitment.