What mechanisms lie behind who gets a career in physics and who leaves academia for other kinds of employment? What role does the workplace culture play in this? These and similar issues are being studied in an ongoing EU-project.
The medical profession is increasingly able to help infertile couples become happy parents. But when it is possible to buy an egg cell from a Russian woman, implant the embryo in an Indian womb and take the finished baby home to Norway, the ethics of medical technology gets mixed with discussions of class and race.
She was considered to be one of Norway’s most prominent pianists at the end of the 1800s and dedicated one of her works to the feminist Aasta Hansteen. Now all her music will be released on cd.
– In accounts of the history of gay liberation, the past is typically portrayed as dark and sinister, and contrasted to a bright and happy present, says anthropologist Hans W. Kristiansen. He has written about discreet gay life in Norway from 1920-1970, and wants to question the stereotypical images of the past.
Minister of Education and Research Tora Aasland has said that she wants to implement national measures to promote gender equality in science. But do we know enough about the cause of the gender imbalance? The relationship between research and measures in academia has spurred debate in Norway this spring.
How can we develop well-functioning and equal research collaboration projects between the North and the South? This was discussed at one of the semi-plenary sessions at the Women’s World’s conference in Madrid, 3-9 July 2008, with Norwegian and Ugandan participants.
What consequences does the Norwegian policy for biotechnology have for the individual? Has God been replaced by genetic determinism? And why can’t two friends get help to make a baby together? These were questions that were addressed at the conference "The future of assisted reproduction" on June 2, 2008.
A small group of urban middle-class women enjoy success in foreign companies in China. But the great majority of Chinese women hired in these companies still receive small pay checks.
Was it a boy, or a girl? What happens when the answer to the very first question is “we’re not quite sure”? Marit Vaula Rasmussen is doing research on the intersex children, children who are born with an indefinite sex.
