Tag: equality
Government apologizes for how gays were treated
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre begged the pardon on Wednesday of thousands of skeive Norwegians (all those not heterosexual) who've been badly treated and...
Norway mourns its own Pride pioneer
Karen-Christine Friele, best known as "Kim," was being hailed Tuesday morning as the gay rights activist in Norway "who broke the sound barrier" in...
Digital Women’s Day is ‘still necessary’
Traditional events to mark International Women's Day in Norway had to go digital this year, but organizers claimed they were still important and necessary....
Minister asks men’s club to ‘wake up’
Norway's government minister in charge of culture and equality, Abid Raja, said he hopes the Oslo-based men's club Norske Selskab will "wake up" and...
Women light a fire under men’s club
One of the last old-fashioned “gentlemen’s clubs” in Norway came under more pressure to join the 21st century on Monday. After years of debate...
Men think women have won equality
Two-thirds of all men questioned in a new survey believe women are equal to men in Norway. Only a quarter of women questioned believe...
Svendsen mulls ‘exciting’ offers
Berit Svendsen, the highly rated executive who felt compelled to leave Telenor earlier this month, says she's had "incredibly many nice messages and exciting...
Government scolds Telenor’s CEO
"I had expected more of Telenor," exclaimed Linda Hofstad Helleland after the state-controlled company failed to retain its most senior female executive who has...
Women still struggle in Norway, too
Norway is widely viewed as a haven of gender equality, but local media took due note on Thursday, International Women's Day, of all the...
Pay gap persists between men and women
Women in Norway continue to earn just 86 percent of what men in Norway take home in terms of average monthly earnings. The latest...
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