Øystein Gullvåg Holter (born 7 February 1952) is a Norwegian sociologist and expert on

men's studies Men's studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning men, masculinity, gender, culture, politics and sexuality. It academically examines what it means to be a man in contemporary society. Origins Sociologists and ...

. Son of

Harriet Holter Harriet Holter (11 April 1922 – 18 December 1997) was a Norwegian social psychologist. Career She graduated with the cand.oecon. degree in 1946, and was eventually hired as a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research, ...

. He is Professor of men's studies at the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

, the first to be appointed to such a chair in Norway. He worked as a researcher at the

Work Research Institute The Work Research Institute (WRI) ( no, Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet, AFI), formerly known as the Institute of Work Psychology, is a Norwegian government-owned social science research institute in Oslo. Its purpose is to "produce systematic knowled ...

from 1980 to 2006, and at the

Nordic Gender Institute The Nordic Gender Institute (NIKK) (''Norwegian: Nordisk institutt for kunnskap om kjønn''), previously ''Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research'', was a transnational resource and information centre for gender research and gende ...

from 2006 to 2008. His fields of research are work and family, gender equality and

historical sociology Historical sociology is an interdisciplinary field of research that combines sociological and historical methods to understand the past, how societies have developed over time, and the impact this has on the present. It emphasises a mutual line ...

. He was a member of the

Equality Commission Equality may refer to: Society * Political equality, in which all members of a society are of equal standing ** Consociationalism, in which an ethnically, religiously, or linguistically divided state functions by cooperation of each group's elite ...

, established by a Royal Decree of 12 February 2010 in order to report on Norway’s equality policies.Equality Commission summary
Kilden. Information Centre for Gender Research in Norway

Books

*''Arbeid og familie - en studie av teknologkulturen'', Universitetsforlaget, 1990 *''Menns livssammenheng'', Ad Notam Gyldendal, 1993 *''Labour of Love - Beyond the Self-evidence of Everyday Life'', co-editor with Tordis Borchgrevink, Ashgate/Avebury, 1995 *''Gender, Patriarchy and Capitalism - A Social Forms Analysis'', University of Oslo/Work Research Institute, 1997 *''Can Men Do It? Men and Gender Equality - The Nordic Experience'', TemaNord 2003:510, Copenhagen, 2003

References

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