Failed the cause of equal pay

In 1959, the Norwegian Parliament ended the practice of establishing lower wage scales for women than for men.
“The Norwegian Employers’ Association used deliberate, cynical means to ensure that female-dominated jobs remained low paying. The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) failed the cause of equal pay by accepting this,” says Professor Inger Bjørnhaug.

(19.08.2010) Read more

Articles

“At the limit of what a person can bear”

Most pregnant women whose foetus is proven to have a genetic abnormality choose to have an abortion, but reaching that decision is a painful, exhausting process for most of them. “The women’s doubt, pain and sorrow make abortion more moral – in the eyes of society as well as her own,” says Sølvi Marie Risøy, a researcher at the University of Bergen.

(19.07.2010) Read more

Merely a maid?

“I like to give someone a chance. So I have an au pair partly for idealistic reasons.” Norwegian families with au pairs do not agree that they may be exploiting poor women.

(22.06.2010) Read more

UN resolution 1325 ten years on

Ten years after UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security was adopted by the UN Security Council, the issue of the role of women in war and conflict has achieved a prominent place on the international agenda. Researcher Torunn Tryggestad is concerned that the intense focus on sexual violence weakens the implementation of other crucial aspects of the resolution.

(14.06.2010) Read more

The boundaries of desire

Post-apartheid South Africa: A white professor is accused of sexually harassing a coloured student and loses his job. His daughter is gang raped by a group of black men. Should the novel Disgrace be interpreted as J. M. Coetzee’s protest again the new South Africa, or is the Nobel Laureate saying something else about violence, desire and empathy?

(26.05.2010) Read more

Publications

HIV/AIDS, the disability grant and ARV adherence : summary report

This report shows that South African women are often discriminated for being the first in the household to disclose a positive HIV status. Many experience blame, abandonment and abuse upon disclosure of their HIV-positive status to their partners.

Hegel's philosophy and feminist thought : beyond Antigone?

In this book, edited by Kimberly Hutchings and Tuija Pulkkinen, scholars such as Judith Butler, Alison Stone and Nancy Bauer contribute to a new generation of feminist readings of Hegel.

Postnatal care : a cross-cultural and historical perspective

Since 1950 the number of public systems of care has steadily decreased in the form of shorter lying-in periods in postnatal wards without a corresponding increase in follow-up care at home. There has been less and less emphasis on the mother's need for rest and assistance, and the authors wonder whether this has contributed to a larger amount of postnatal depressions.

'Reproachable victims'? : representations and self- representations of Russian women involved in transnational prostitution

In this article the authors investigate how the concept of victimhood is constructed within debates on transnational prostitution and trafficking. They also discuss how female prostitutes from post-Soviet societies relate to notions of victimhood and how they handle the stigma of prostitution.

More publications

Better understanding through interdisciplinary alliances (07.05.2010)

Woman in the Hot Seat (22.04.2010)

Using the body as a weapon (07.04.2010)

Continue to publish less than male colleagues (23.03.2010)

Mediators and bridge-builders (12.03.2010)

When feminism legitimizes war (22.02.2010)

Challengers of manliness (04.02.2010)

Portrait: No prima donna (19.01.2010)

–Unsuccessful strategy (11.01.2010)

A balancing act (21.12.2009)