ABSTRACT
Recognizing both the legal, political, and social achievements and the remaining gaps, this chapter describes and discusses the potential and limits of Norway's gender equality and anti-discrimination law regime in the context of the promotion of substantive gender equality. The chapter describes different subfields of Norwegian gender equality policy with a focus on the interactive relationship between such policy, equality and anti-discrimination law, and other laws that promote or hinder gender equality. Legislation has been introduced and amended a number of times, but, overall, the development can be divided into three phases: establishing, expansion, and merger. In the light of this effect, it is argued that the 'double equality and dignity harm' approach does not fully recognize sexual harassment as a matter of inequality, and particularly the unequal power relations, rooted in social institutions, between the sexes.
