Helga Hernes
| Helga Hernes | |
|---|---|
| Born |
16 January 1938 Germany |
| Citizenship | Norwegian |
| Fields |
Political science Women's studies |
| Institutions |
University of Bergen Institute for Social Research |
| Alma mater |
Mount Holyoke College Johns Hopkins University |
| Known for | State Secretary (1988-1989, 1990-1993) Ambassador (1998-2004) |
Helga Marie Hernes (born 16 January 1938) is a Norwegian political scientist, diplomat and politician for the Labour Party.
She was born as Helga Marie Jahncke in Germany (today's Poland), and migrated to Bavaria in 1945 as a refugee. She was an exchange high school student to the United States in 1956, and later took her higher education in that country. A bachelor's degree from the Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts in 1961 was followed by a master's degree at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1967.
In 1970 she took her PhD at the Johns Hopkins University, on the thesis The Concept of Community in Modern Theories of International Law. She was hired at the University of Bergen in the same year, and became senior lecturer in comparative politics in 1974. She left Bergen in 1980 to work as research director in the Research Council of Norway, and in 1983 she was hired as a research director at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research. Among her important publications from this time were Staten - kvinner ingen adgang? (1982) and Welfare State and Woman Power. Essays in state feminism (1987), both pertaining to women's studies. These books were a part of the series Kvinners levekår og livsløp, of which Hernes was the editor, counting seventeen publications in total.
Hernes remained at the Institute for Social Research until 1988, when she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a part of the second cabinet Brundtland. When the second cabinet Brundtland fell in 1989, Hernes returned to her position at the Institute for Social Research. However, in 1990 a third cabinet Brundtland assumed office, and Hernes again became State Secretary.
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