1 Please cite: NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist & Gender Research Vol 18, No 2, 2010 MAKING EQUALITY DIVERSE? Merged Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination Measures in Norway Susanne Bygnes Department of Sociology and Eurosphere University of Bergen Contact details: Department of Sociology Rosenbergsgaten 39 5015 Bergen susanne.bygnes@sos.uib.no Phone 0047 55588067 Susanne Bygnes is a PhD candidate at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is also affiliated with the comparative project Eurosphere, funded by the 6 th Framework Programme. Her research interests include diversity and equality in national and transnational contexts. She has recently published a book Questioning Modernity and Development (2008) and an essay on Dorothy E. Smith (In Mortensen et. al. 2008). ABSTRACT This article enquires into a shift in policy work related to equality and discrimination by examining to which extent gender equality has been complemented by a focus on ethnic discrimination in a report issued by the Norwegian Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud. The empirical analysis illustrates how the discrepancies between the report’s intentions and its content reveal tough conditions for new categories of inequality in a country topping the international statistics on gender equality. The article argues that a substantial part of the report builds on political strategies the main aim of which has been to include women into public spheres and that such strategies do not correspond to intentions to include difference and diversity into the framework of the examined reports.