Margunn Bjørnholt

Margunn Bjørnholt
Born	1958
Nationality	Norwegian
Alma mater	University of Tromsø, College of Europe, University of Oslo
Occupation	Sociologist
Employer(s)	University of Oslo, Work Research Institute, National Institute of Technology, Regional Development Fund
Website	www.margunnbjornholt.no

Margunn Bjørnholt (born 1958) is a Norwegian sociologist and feminist. She is an expert on work–family arrangements and gender equality, and, in particular, men's role and agency in social change towards more egalitarian work–family arrangements. Other research fields include feminist legal theory, social justice, feminist economics, microfinance, ethical banking, public sector reform and management, and cultural sociology. She has been a researcher at the University of Oslo and the Work Research Institute, a visiting scholar at Emory University School of Law, and now works at Kvinneuniversitetet i Norden. She has also been a national expert on gender equality to the European Commission Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, is chair of CINI in Norway and is a member of the executive board of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. She was involved in the alternative banking movement in the 1990s as chair of a working group attempting to start a bank in Norway modelled after JAK Members Bank in Sweden, and formerly worked at the Regional Development Fund and the National Institute of Technology, and as a partner in a consultancy, promoting female entrepreneurship. She is also a regular commentator in Norwegian media on gender equality, and has contributed op-eds to Aftenposten, Dagbladet, Dagens Næringsliv, Morgenbladet, Klassekampen and other publications.

She holds a cand.mag. degree in regional planning from the University of Tromsø (1981), an MA in international economics from the College of Europe in Belgium (1982) and a mag.art. degree in sociology from the University of Oslo (1995), with a dissertation on alternative financial institutions (Pengene mot strømmen).

Selected publications

• Bjørnholt, M.; McKay, A. (eds) (2013). Counting on Marilyn Waring. New Advances in Feminist Economics. Toronto: Demeter Press.
• Bjørnholt, M.; Farstad, G. (in press). "’Am I rambling?’ On the advantages of interviewing couples together." Qualitative Research.
• Bjørnholt, M. (2012). "From work-sharing couples to equal parents. Changing perspectives on men and gender equality". In Krekula, C.; Åberg, M.; Samuelsson, M.J. (eds.). Gender and Change. Power, Politics and Everyday Practices. Karlstad: Karlstad University Press. ISBN 978-86637-05-7. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |separator=, |trans_chapter=, |laysummary=, |chapterurl=, and |lastauthoramp= (help)
• Bjørnholt, M. (2011). "Kilder til begjær, inderlighet til besvær? Om tradisjon, fornyelse og faglig refleksjon i folkedansen" (PDF). Musikk og tradisjon. 25: 101–119.
• Bjørnholt, M. (2011). "How Men Became the Local Agents of Change towards Gender Equality" (PDF). Journal of Gender Studies. 20 (1): 3–18. doi:10.1080/09589236.2010.514210.
• Bjørnholt, M. (2010). "Like Father, Like Son? The Transmission of Values, Family Practices and Work-Family Adaptations to Sons of Work-Sharing Men" (PDF). Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research and Practice about Men as Fathers. 8 (3): 276–299. doi:10.3149/fth.0803.276.
• Bjørnholt, M. (2010). "Part-Time Work and the Career and Life Choices of the Men from the Work-Sharing Couples Study" (PDF). Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. 29 (6): 573–592. doi:10.1108/02610151011067513.
• Bjørnholt, M. (2010). "Den norske likedelingsmodellen. Fra samfunnskritikk til hegemonisk styringsmodell" (PDF). Sosiologi i dag. 40 (1–2): 35–56.
• Bjørnholt, M. (2009). "Fathers and sons. Gender socialization and intergenerational transmission revisited" (PDF). Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies. 4 (1): 83–102.
• Bjørnholt, M. (2009). "Norwegian Work-Sharing Couples Project 30 years later. Revisiting an experimental research project for gender equality in the family" (PDF). Equal Opportunities International. 28 (4): 304–323. doi:10.1108/02610150910954773.
• Bjørnholt, M. (2007). The good, the bad and the ugly; endring av mannsrollen, fedrerettigheter og likestilling. In Å. Eldén and J. Westerstrand (eds.), Guts and Glory: Festskrift till Eva Lundgren. Uppsala: Uppsala University. ISBN 978-91-506-1977-5.
• Bjørnholt, M. (2006). Bruk av tradisjonskunnskap hos bunadprodusenter i Telemark i dag. In R. Hutchison (ed.), Lokale tråder – tråkling gjennom tekstil- og lokalhistorie. Oslo: The Norwegian Institute of Local History. ISBN 82-8186-002-2.
• Bjørnholt, M. (2005). "Farsrettigheter og mødres handlingsrom". Tidsskrift for familierett, arverett og barnevernrettslige spørsmål. 3 (4): 259–278.
• Bjørnholt, M. (2005). "Hvorfor er folkedrakt så viktig i Norge og marginalt i nabolandene?". Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy. 8 (2): 34–50.
• Bjørnholt, M.; Knudsen, W.; Lissner, T. (2005). "Gender and distant work relations." In M. Cunningham and P. Cunningham (eds), Innovation and the knowledge economy. Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington DC: IOS Press. ISBN 978-1-58603-563-1.
• Knudsen, W.; Bjørnholt, M.; Lissner, T. (2004). "New public management and distant work." In M. Cunningham and P. Cunningham (eds), eAdoption and the knowledge economy. Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington DC: IOS Press. ISBN 1-58603-470-7.
• Bjørnholt, M. (1995). Pengene mot strømmen; alternative finansieringsorganisasjoner. Oslo: University of Oslo. ISBN 82-570-0438-3.

External links

• Official website