Ulla-Britt Lilleaas has been appointed the new leader of the Center for Gender and Equality at the University of Agder. One of the things she wants to focus on is why the Agder region, in the south of Norway, frequently scores low on gender equality indexes.

In kindergarten the boys make lots of noise and play with Lego, but they also like to spend time playing with dolls. The girls, on the other hand, stick to doing "girls’ stuff". A new report concludes that Norwegian kindergartens are failing to promote gender equality.

Marcia Inhorn, Professor II at the University of Bergen, gives her view on the situation for women in science in Norway and the U.S. She perceives Norway as a gender progressive country and is impressed by the “gender privilege” she finds Norwegian women researchers to have.

It is often said that transsexuals are “born in the wrong body”. But does “the right body” have to be either a woman’s or a man’s body?

Despite an enormous increase in working women: Norwegian women of today get about as many children as their mothers. The career woman who chooses not to have children or waits until she is 40, is more of a media myth than a widespread reality, according to Statistics Norway researchers Trude Lappegård and Turid Noack.

A recent report from the Norwegian research institute NIFU STEP shows that men outnumber women within commercial and business-oriented research and that female researchers are less involved in international collaboration and peer review than their male colleagues.

All of a sudden there was no escape: Publicly listed companies in Norway had to comply with the law requiring a 40 % female quota for board members. And indeed: It quickly worked. What happened?

Freedom is a key aspect for women who choose not to have children. But it is a controversial decision and many women have to face strong reactions regarding their choice. Being childfree has become more difficult, says Tove Ingebjørg Fjell.

He saw the light in the United States in the seventies. Since then, associate professor Pål Bjørby has been committed to feminist research. Recently he turned sixty.