Kjellaug Pettersen (born 5 January 1934,

Andøya Andøya is the northernmost island in the Vesterålen archipelago, situated about inside the Arctic circle. Andøya is located in Andøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The main population centres on the island include the villages of ...

- died 11 November 2012) was a Norwegian senior government official, politician and feminist. She worked as a teacher and headmistress of

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School from 1979 to 1988. In 1981 she was appointed by the

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as a member of an expert committee on

gender equality Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing d ...

, and in 1991 she became director of the gender equality secretariat within the Ministry of Education. She later served as a special adviser in the Ministry of Education. She was a co-founder of the Women's University in 1983 and was president of the

Norwegian Association for Women's Rights The Norwegian Association for Women's Rights ( no, italic=no, Norsk Kvinnesaksforening; NKF) is Norway's oldest and preeminent women's and girls' rights organization and works "to promote gender equality and all women's and girls' human rights thr ...

from 1994 to 1998. She was a deputy member of the

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' committee on human rights from 1994 to 1995.Kjellaug Pettersen
The Norwegian State Administration Database.

Publications

* Framtidsdrømmen og virkeligheten : jenter og gutter velger utdanning og yrke, Friundervisningens forlag, 1990, * Tøffe gutter, stille jenter; hjemme og på skolen, Aventura, 1987,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pettersen, Kjellaug Norwegian women's rights activists 1934 births 2012 deaths Norwegian civil servants Norwegian feminists Heads of schools in Norway 20th-century Norwegian politicians 20th-century Norwegian women politicians Norwegian Association for Women's Rights people