Kjellaug Pettersen

Kjellaug Pettersen
26th President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights
In office 1994–1998
Preceded by	Bjørg Krane Bostad
Succeeded by	Siri Hangeland
Special adviser in the Ministry of Education
Personal details
Born	5 January 1934
Died	11 November 2012
Nationality	Norway
Occupation	government official and politician

Kjellaug Pettersen (born 5 January 1934 at 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.

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