Projects about the Equality and Gender

Work–Family Trade-Offs in Context: Labor Market Conditions, Gender Differences in Parental Career Trajectories and Family Well-Being

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.

ACCESS will investigate the relationship between socio-economic background and the recruitment and careers of academic professionals.

Political-democratic differences between women and men are emerging as a growing challenge in Western societies, particularly among younger generations. STRUGGLE examines which gendered life experiences contribute to these differences.

The project will compile and disseminate new research on key dynamics related to time, replaceability, and rewards within employee careers in banking, as well as portfolio careers.

The project will result in a policy brief, showing the effect of women’s increased participation in the labour market as a factor in Norway’s GDP growth.

The project examines social and economic differences in birth rates, childlessness, and partnership formation.

This project examines how the transition to parenthood affects income and wage disparities between women and men, and which factors amplify or reduce these inequalities.

The GENDERSKILLS project examines how the different educational choices made by men and women affect their career opportunities.

The project will provide an overview of attitudes towards key gender equality issues among different parts of the Norwegian population, based on the CORE Survey 2022.

The world of work is undergoing major changes — from digitalization and the green transition to an ageing population. This project examines how workplaces and employers can facilitate good, long careers as an ever-larger share of the workforce reaches their 50s, 60s and 70s.

This project is initiated by CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality and financed by The Institute for Social Reseach.

Challenges and possibilities within the Nordic work-family model.

This project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality.

This project will examine the developments and explanations of the gender wage gap in the Norwegian labor market. We will look at women and men who perform the same work and assess possible indicators for measuring wage inequalities between women and men performing work of equal value.

CORE Survey – The Equality Survey is a survey examining the population’s views on various issues related to gender equality.

Danish politicians are often harassed on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. In this project, we investigate what forms of abuse politicians are exposed to and whether efforts to stop the harassment are working.

CORE Gender Balance Scorecard monitors the gender distribution in the top management groups in the largest Norwegian enterprises and follows the development over time.

Exploration of reasons for, and consequences of, women and children being withheld or left behind abroad.

Follow-up assistance and prevention.

In recent years, the public debate about the challenges boys and men face in today’s society has resurfaced and received increased attention. What does previous research say about this and what are the reasons?

A knowledge mapping of the activity and reporting duty in the Equality and Anti-discrimination Act.

The project summarizes existing knowledge about gender balance in boards and management in Norwegian business life. It also contributes with an assessment of how the measures to promote such gender balance have worked.

In this project, we will investigate the consequences of the pandemic for children’s and young people’s conditions in which to grow up, for equality in families and for individuals, including children and adults with disabilities, as well as experiences on the internet. 

Public authorities and employers’ activity duty and the duty to issue a statement

This project examines the relationship between men’s and women’s work, and fertility. For most families, there is a conflict between time and income in the decision to have children.

Towards equal opportunities?

The project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality

The project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality

The project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality.

The project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality.

Gender balance at the top of the business world: Obstacles and opportunities.

The project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality

In this project, we analyze the wage trajectories of researchers in the Norwegian labor market.

What is the monetary value of women’s and men’s unpaid care and domestic work, and how does it impact the national economy?

The project aims to understand the health consequences of gender differences in school performance and examine whether they are explained by differences in timing of physical maturity between girls and boys.

Dynamics and processes for transformational change across scales.

The project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality.

The project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality.

The project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality.

The project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality.

The umbrella project NORPOL is a collection of researcher-initiated sub-projects. The aim is to analyse whether Norwegian society is being polarized – and, if so, how.

The project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality.

The project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality.