Equality and Gender
The main topics family, working life, politics and policy form the framework of the institute’s research on gender equality and gender relations.
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.
Contact
- mari.teigen@samfunnsforskning.no
- Phone
- +47 48 20 71 37
Most Recent Equality and Gender Projects
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Public Attitudes towards the Sámi Sep. 14, 2026
What are the attitudes of the Norwegian majority population towards the Sámi people, and how can these be measured systematically over time? In this project, we develop a set of survey questions to systematically measure attitudes towards the Sámi and analyse data from a nationwide survey in which these questions are used.
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- isf-project
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- democracy
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- discrimination
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- diversity
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Work–Family Trade-Offs in Context (TRADE-OFFS) Sep. 11, 2026
Work–Family Trade-Offs in Context: Labor Market Conditions, Gender Differences in Parental Career Trajectories and Family Well-Being
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- isf-project
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- equality and gender
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- labour market
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Nordic Research and Policy Network on Boys and Men Aug. 31, 2026
The Norwegian Institute for Social Research/CORE serves as the host institution for developing a Nordic network for researchers working on issues related to boys and men in the Nordic countries.
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- isf-project
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- equality and gender