Career
She was appointed as Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Oslo in 2003, the second person to hold a chair in that discipline at the University of Oslo. She was leader of the European Union research project "Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The Impact of Contemporary Women"s Movements," which was a cooperation of 15 research institutions in ten countries. Her fields of expertise are gender equality, women"s movements, feminist theory, and multiculturalism.
Halsaa holds a candidate.polit. degree in political science from 1975.
She worked at Lillehammer University College from 1977 to 2001, where she became Associate Professor in 1988. She was Professor II (part-time chair) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 1999 to 2002.
In 2001, she became Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, and full Professor in 2003.