What is the use of a right to education if one is unable to go to school because of menstruation? - Human rights is the most important project of our time. But if they are to be realized, then the tools must be adapted to the specific context, says Anne Hellum. The Norwegian law professor is one of four editors of a multi-national book that looks at the justice-based women- and development policies from below and from within.

What were you wearing? Did you invite him in? And were you really forced? The questions that meet raped Liberian women refugees are not that different from Norwegian circumstances according to Sæba Bajoghli, who has written a Master’s thesis on rape in one African refugee camp.

The old measures cannot take us all the way. The key to economic gender equality is the father, claims economist Hilde Bojer.

Getting pregnant can be dangerous, if you are poor and live in a country where women are little valued. In Somalia and Sierra Leone, every seventh woman dies during pregnancy. Berit Austveg, specialist in community medicine, has written a book about what she calls the world’s greatest social injustice: maternal mortality.

In a work/life study, for the Fostering Caring Masculinities project (FOCUS), researchers from five European countries have confirmed that each country wants to see more men taking parental leave to spend time caring for their children.

Girls from ethnic minorities, in Norway, have a below average participation rate in organised sports. Åse Strandbu has studied those who do take part.

Equal pay for equal work has been a demand for several decades. The differences, however, are still great. Why?

Elin Havelin Rekdal was looking for a topic to write her masters thesis on. She noticed a book exhibited in Sunndalsøra Library, in the western part of Norway: “What is a woman?” by Toril Moi. Does anyone really have the answer to that question, Rekdal wondered. She is now doing her doctorate on Toril Moi and her books.

Female production and modern housework is a central part of modernisation and the welfare state. Gro Hagemann is researching how historical and political changes have formed the role of the housewife through the 20th century.