Challengers of manliness

Our traditional view of manliness contributes to create a framework in which men can also be victims of sexual abuse, according to Torbjørn Herlof Andersen. The researcher has studied men who have been sexually abused and he shows how they cope with their painful experiences.

(04.02.2010) Read more

Articles

Portrait: No prima donna

According to colleagues, she is one of the most important scholars on children and gender in the world. So how come she is proofreading texts for colleagues at the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo?

(19.01.2010) Read more

–Unsuccessful strategy

All the fuss about recruitment destroys young women’s interest in natural science, according to educational researcher Guðrún Jónsdóttir.

(11.01.2010) Read more

A balancing act

Getting married was not the only way for a woman to live her life, even in the 1800s. As art historian Jorunn Veiteberg shows in her new biography of the Norwegian sculptor Ambrosia Tønnesen, an alternative lifestyle was not necessarily filled with self-denial and loneliness.

(21.12.2009) Read more

Harassment leads to sport drop-out

Studies suggest that sexual harassment can cause female athletes to leave the field of sport. “This means that harassment may lead to big losses for sport,” says Professor Kari Fasting, Norway’s foremost expert on the subject.

(09.12.2009) Read more

Publications

Trick or treat? : the UN and implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security

In this article, Torunn L. Tryggestad argues that the adoption of Resolution 1325 illustrates how cross-cutting thematic issues such as “women, peace, and security” today are placed on the agenda and nurtured by the UN Secretariat.

How do international norms travel? : women's political rights in Cambodia and Timor-Leste

In her thesis, Susanne Alldén (Umeå University) has studied how the international norm of women's political rights travels, via statebuilding efforts, into post-conflict settings. She found that although norm institutionalization has been rather high in both Cambodia and Timor-Leste, norm internalization lags behind.

Women in the Norwegian armed forces : gender equality or operational imperative?

In this article Inger Skjelsbæk and Torunn Tryggestad from PRIO ask what kinds of equality compulsory military service for women would create and how these different equalities relate to new military challenges.

Where are all the women? : institutional context and the prevalence of women on the corporate board of directors

In her thesis, Johanne Grosvold has mapped the share of women in corporate boards in 50 countries. Her results indicate, among other things, that countries with more liberal political views, lower cultural uncertainty avoidance and a larger share of educated women have more women board directors.

More publications

Child care: parents’ private problem? (23.11.2009)

Few women leaders in the research institute sector (11.11.2009)

Not feminized, but modernized (04.11.2009)

Successful Russian crisis centres (19.10.2009)

Portrait: An eye for the unseen (01.10.2009)

Always a difficult choice? (15.09.2009)

Rigid structures and reluctant men (04.09.2009)

Parodic, political pop (19.08.2009)

Partner violence continues after break-up (09.07.2009)

Dangerous boys – unprotected girls (24.06.2009)