Background
She was the daughter of the newspaper editor, politician, Member of Parliament and mayor of Stavanger Johan Gjøstein and the women"s rights pioneer Anna Gjøstein.
She was the daughter of the newspaper editor, politician, Member of Parliament and mayor of Stavanger Johan Gjøstein and the women"s rights pioneer Anna Gjøstein.
University of Oslo.
She served as President of the Norwegian Association for Women"s Rights from 1952 until her death in a plane crash in the Soviet Union in 1955. She worked for some years as a stenographer at the Parliament of Norway, passed the examen artium (university entrance exam) in 1929 and obtained the candidate.philol. degree at the Royal Frederick University in 1931. She was chairwoman of the Oslo branch of the Norwegian Association for Women"s Rights before she was elected the national president in 1952.
She died in a plane crash in the Soviet Union in 1955 with nine other Norwegian women.
She was also a member of Oppegård municipal council and its executive committee, representing the Liberal Party, from 1952.