- Source: Kjellaug Pettersen
Kjellaug Pettersen (born 5 January 1934, Andøya - died 11 November 2012) was a Norwegian senior government official, politician and feminist.
She worked as a teacher and headmistress of Bygdøy School from 1979 to 1988. In 1981 she was appointed by the Ministry of Education as a member of an expert committee on gender equality, 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 from 1994 to 1998. She was a deputy member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' committee on human rights from 1994 to 1995.
Publications
Framtidsdrømmen og virkeligheten : jenter og gutter velger utdanning og yrke, Friundervisningens forlag, 1990, ISBN 82-7020-297-5
Tøffe gutter, stille jenter; hjemme og på skolen, Aventura, 1987, ISBN 82-588-0442-1
References
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- List of women's rights activists
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- Bjørg Krane Bostad
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- List of members of the Storting, 1989–1993
