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Margunn Bjørnholt
Margunn Bjørnholt is a sociologist and researcher. Over the last years, her scholarly work has focused on work, family and gender equality, with a particular emphasis on men and gender equality. Her current research focuses on social justice in the intersection of feminist legal theory and feminist economics. Other research areas include alternative financial institutions
(microfinance, ethical and interest-free banking), working life, public sector reform and management, and the contemporary use of cultural heritage. She has previously worked as a civil servant and consultant, promoting female entrepreneurship and regional development.
She holds a mag. art. degree in sociology from the University of Oslo, a cand. mag. degree in regional planning from the University of Tromsø, and an MA in international economics from the College of Europe in Belgium. She has been employed as a researcher at several Norwegian research institutions, including the Work Research Institute and the University of Oslo.
The project
The project Women’s economic citizenship and equal parenthood, by
sociologist and researcher Margunn Bjørnholt, analyses the possible
consequences for women’s autonomy, quality of life and economic
citizenship, of more equal parenting, in view of new theories of
justice. A background for the project is that women's financial status
has been weakened in Norway due to the development towards a more
individual and egalitarian parenthood.
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