Anna Gjøstein

Anna Gjøstein (15 June 1869 – 6 January 1956) was a Norwegian proponent for women's rights.

Gjøstein was born in Ås on 15 June 1869, a daughter of Ole Andersen Moberg and Ovidia Simensdatter Skræmma.

While she was a child, the family moved to Christiania where she attended Sandbergs pikeskole.

She travelled to Michigan in the United States with her fiancee Johan Gjøstein, and they married in 1888.

[3] She was engaged in education of housewives, and in 1927 she initiated the establishment of Stavanger Mødrehygienekontor [no] (to inform women on contraception).