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Ingerid Gjøstein Resi
Ingerid Gjøstein Resi
15th President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights
In office 1952–1955
Preceded by	Dakky Kiær
Succeeded by	Marit Aarum
Personal details
Born	(1901-07-15)15 July 1901
Died	6 August 1955(1955-08-06) (aged 54)
Nationality	Norwegian
Political party	Liberal Party

Ingerid Gjøstein Resi (15 July 1901 – 6 August 1955) was a Norwegian philologist, women's rights leader and politician for the Liberal Party. She served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1952 until her death in 1955.

Career

Beginning in 1921, Gjøstein Resi worked as a stenographer at the Parliament of Norway. She passed the examen artium, a university entrance exam, in 1929. She then attended the Royal Frederick University and obtained a cand.philol. degree in 1931.

She was a member of Oppegård municipal council and its executive committee, representing the Liberal Party, from 1952. She was the chairwoman of the Oslo branch of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights before she was elected as the organisation's president in 1952. She died in a plane crash in the Soviet Union in 1955 along with the rest of the women's delegation.

Personal life

Gjøstein Resi was born on 15 July 1901 in Stavanger, Norway, the youngest of five children. She was the daughter of the politician and journalist Stavanger Johan Gjøstein and the women's rights pioneer Anna Gjøstein.

She was married to parish priest Oscar Resi and had two children. Their son, Kjell Gjøstein Resi, was born on 7 November 1937. He became a successful journalist in Norway, working as a foreign correspondent for NRK during the Vietnam War and later in the Middle East. Their daughter, Heid Gjøstein Resi, was an archeologist and professor at the University of Oslo.

References

1. Lønnå, Elisabeth (1996). Stolthet og kvinnekamp: Norsk kvinnesaksforenings historie fra 1913 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. p. 335. ISBN 8205244952.
2. Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). 8 August 1955. p. 10. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. "1910 census for Stavanger". www.digitalarkivet.no. National Archives of Norway. 1910. Retrieved 2020-12-11 – via the Digital Archives.
4. Bergestuen, Svein Tore; Eckblad, Bjørn (2009). Radiokrigen lyden av pop, penger og politikk (in Norwegian). Oslo: Font. ISBN 978-82-8169-042-4. OCLC 1028481804.

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Hagbart Berner Anna Stang Ragna Nielsen Anna Bugge Ragna Nielsen Randi Blehr Fredrikke Marie Qvam Randi Blehr Aadel Lampe Fredrikke Mørck Anna Hvoslef Kitty Bugge Margarete Bonnevie Dakky Kiær Ingerid Gjøstein Resi Marit Aarum Signe Swensson Eva Kolstad Clara Ottesen Kari Skjønsberg Karin M. Bruzelius Sigrun Hoel Irene Bauer Siri Hangeland Bjørg Krane Bostad Kjellaug Pettersen Siri Hangeland Berit Kvæven Torild Skard Margunn Bjørnholt Marit Nybakk Karin M. Bruzelius Anne Hege Grung

• Norwegian women's rights activists
• 1901 births
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• Norwegian feminists
• Liberal Party (Norway) politicians
• Akershus politicians
• People from Stavanger
• University of Oslo alumni
• Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the Soviet Union
• 20th-century Norwegian politicians
• 20th-century Norwegian women politicians
• Norwegian Association for Women's Rights people
• Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1955