( b 1949 ) completted a B.a. in 1971 and a Phd. in 1978, at the University of Lund (Sweden). She has been employed as a research associate at the departement of Sociology of law- first at Lunds universtity ( 1980-83) and later at Oslo university (1983-88) where she later was appointed full professor (1990-91). She has also been employed as a Head of research at the Center for women´s research, Olso University (1988-90). Since 1992 she is a full professor at the Department of sociology and human geography at Oslo university.

Karin Widerberg, Phd., is Professor of Sociology at the Dep of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway. She has published books and articels on feminist theory of science and methodology (f.ex the book "The Gender of Knowledge", in swedish and norwegian 1995), understandings of gender ( f.ex the book "Understandings of Gender within the Social Sciences", in norwegian 1992), sexual violence ( f.ex. the book "Sex at work", in norwegian 1992) and law from a feminist perspective( f.ex the book " The Legal and Social Position of Women 1750 -1980", in swedish 1980). She is currently working on a project on "The Sociality of Tiredness - The Handling of Tiredness in a Gender, Generation and Class Perspective.