There are about 50% women in the police, but in operative positions the percentage is around 30%. Photo: Women's police hat used the first year women were allowed to attend police training in 1959 / Justismuseet.

Anne Rogstad met at the Storting in 1911. She was a feminist crucial for the suffragette movement in Norway. Photo: Anne Rogstad / Oslo Museum

Johanna Nordbø was a dress designer before she became a prison guard in March 1970. Foto: Prison employees at Kristiania district prison 1896 / Justice Museum collection.

If we count the "concubine paragraph", which made co-living between two unwed people of the opposite gender illegal, the law was not abolished until 1972. Photo: Christian Vs Norwegian law 1687 / Justismuseet.

Elise Mathilde Henriksen Heilmann was hired by Kristiansand police in 1911, where she was responsible for women and children. She worked in the police until her retirement in 1932. Photo: Hjemmet magazine 1911 No 53 / unknown photographer / nb.no

The women's vote was implemented gradually. Women with taxable income could vote in local elections in 1901, and in the general election in 1907. They could vote under the same conditions as men in local elections in 1910 and the general election in 1913. Photo: the first women place their votes in the local election in 1910. / Unknown photographer / Oslo Museum.

Elise Sem was a Norwegian jurist who in 1904 became the first woman lawyer in Europe. In Norway she was also the first woman to become a prosecutor in 1905, and supreme court lawyer in 1912. Foto: Elise Sem, unknown photographer, Oslo Museum.

Sofie Johannesdotter (1839–1876) was beheaded in 1876. She was convicted of poisoning. Photo: Justismuseet.

Lilly Helena Bølviken (1914–2011) was a Norwegian jurist, feminist and was appointed a judge on the supreme court in 1968. Photo: Oslo, 1962, city court judge Bølviken in her office / Valldal, Åsgeir / Dagbladet / Norsk Folkemuseum

The 9th of February 1912 women could be appointed to state office, including as judges. Photo: city court judge Sofie Schjøtt, 1935 / Barlaup, Asbjørn, nb.no