Gro Hagemann (born 3 September 1945) is a Norwegian historian. She was born in

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

and completed her

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degree in 1989 with the thesis ''Lavtlønnsyrker blir til. Kvinnearbeid og kjønnsskiller i søm og telekommunikasjon 1870–1940''. She has been a

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at the

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since 1992. Hagemann is a member of the

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and from 1990 to 1993 she chaired the

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. She was awarded the Gina Krog Prize in 2009. Among her most important publications are ''Skolefolk. Lærernes historie i Norge'' (1992), ''Kjønn og industrialisering'' (1994) and ''Det moderne gjennombrudd 1870–1905'' (1997, volume nine of '' Aschehougs Norgeshistorie'').

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1945 births Living people 20th-century Norwegian historians Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Writers from Oslo Norwegian women academics Norwegian women writers Norwegian women historians 21st-century Norwegian historians {{Norway-historian-stub