Towards a Closing of the Gender Pay Gap is a European project on wage differences between women and men. The project is funded by the European Commission’s Community Framework Strategy on Gender Equality (2001-2005) and by national authorities. The objective of the project is to examine the gender pay gap in a broad perspective, against the backdrop of wage formation and pay systems. The project aims to identify an efficient mix of tools to close the gender pay gap in the context of each partner country.There are six partner countries in the project: Austria, Denmark, Greece, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom. A Steering Committee with members from all the partner countries functions as the governing body for the project. The Norwegian Centre for Gender Equality manages the project.As part of the European project a case study of three occupations is carried out. The study covers teaching associate professional (secondary school teachers), engineering professionals and workers in the food (or preferable fish) processing industry. The case study comprises representative descriptions and statistics as well as local-level examples based on questionnaires and personnel interviews with representatives – employers and employees - for a small number of workplaces that are typical for the three selected occupations.The case study is conducted in each of the six partner countries. The purpose of the study is to analyse the gender pay gap, and how the pay gap differs across countries and occupations. Based on the results from these national studies a comparative, European level analysis is to be accomplished.Institute for Social Research, Oslo, is engaged by the Norwegian Centre for Gender Equality to do the case study in Norway. This report presents the country report from Norway. It relies on various sources of information: Research reports and committee statements; survey data as well as statistical indicators published by Statistics Norway, and statistics and documents published by the social partners and other organisations. As part of the case study, representatives for some of the unions covering the three occupations are interviewed. We have also benefited from meeting with the Norwegian Reference Group for the project. However, the report presents the views of the authors only.The report can be downloaded from www.likestilling.no/genderpaygap/