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

Part-time work and the career and life choices of the men from the work-sharing couples study

Working part-time and sharing childcare and housework with their partner did not have negative career effects for men who tried this out in the 1970s. This is one of the findings in Margunn Bjørnholt's study. She has interviewed the couples 30 years later.

“For was I not born here?” : identity and culture in the work of Yvonne du Fresne

In this book Anne Holden Rønning studies the literary work of Yvonne du Fresne. du Fresne explores how memories of the past haunt generations of immigrants, especially women, and how issues of language, politics and social norms live on through generations, affecting the formation of new identities and homes.

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.

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)