Åse Gruda Skard

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Overview

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Åse Gruda Skard (née Grude Koht) born Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway December 2, 1906 (d. 1985). First Norwegian woman to obtain psychology degree; pioneering child psychologist. Only woman on Norwegian delegation to the founding of the UN, San Francisco, 1945. Women's rights advocate. Supporter of UNESCO, promoting its “world-mindedness.”

Quotations

"It hastened all work for international co-ordination. . . It is a matter of building such a strong sense of unity in the world that the next war is not going to happen." (1949, in Psychologi, 2005; photo Wikipedia)