The ISF’s gender equality research is concerned with societal challenges in the interaction between family, the labour market, and policy. Gender equality research at the ISF has given particular importance to understanding and explaining gender differences in terms of participation in education and the labour market, wages, careers, and management, as well as investigating the relationship between work and family life. In our research we are concerned with how gender is intertwined with other inequality generators such as ethnic background, age, generation, and class.
The Institute was one of the first to research gender equality and gender relations. In recent years, CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality has played a key role in this field. In 2017, the Institute also established NORDICORE, a five-year Nordic Centre of Excellence for gender balance studies and gender equality in academia.
Centre
Projects
- Active equality efforts
- Climate Change Adaptation, Dispossession and Displacement (ADD)
- Comparing Histories of Antisemitism in Contemporary Europe
- Consequences of the Pandemic for Living Conditions and Equality
- CORE Gender Balance Scorecard
- CORE Survey 2022 – The Equality Survey
- Determined to succeed? Maturation, Motivation and Gender Gaps in Educational Achievement
- Digital harassment of politicians
- Gender Equality Challenges among Norwegian Men Today
- Gender Equality in the Business Sector
- Health-Gap: Health, Maturity, and the Gender Gap in Education
- Missing Men: New conceptual understandings of gendered educational choices
- Pubertal timing and Inequalities in Education
- The gender wage gap and its explanations and causes
- What we do For a Living: Gender biased differences in tasks and pay
- Work and family in an advanced economy (FAMWORK)
Researchers
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