"The welfare state has been one of the key reasons why the Nordic Region has made progress towards gender equality," the Norwegian Minister for Gender Equality, Audun Bjørlo Lysbakken, tells the UN. "It has allowed women to combine family and work."
“We now have a unique historical opportunity to do something about the gender imbalance in Norwegian research,” says Professor Hanne Haavind, who has recruiting advice for leaders who want to seize the day.
"As long as women are subjected to violence, we will never achieve gender equality – in the north or the south," Lysbakken, the Norwegian minister, said in his opening speech to delegates from all over the world at the UN CSW in New York.