[2] Despite having a degree in economics, the prospect of making an academic career in this field became unsettling for Holter.
degree in 1970 on the thesis Sex Roles and Social Structure (which was also selected for the Norwegian Sociology Canon in 2009–2011), Holter became a pioneer in this field in the Nordic countries.
She later edited the books Familien i klassesamfunnet (1976), Kvinner i fellesskap (1982) and Patriarchy in a Welfare Society (1984).
Her own works Tvang til seksualitet (1986) and Sex i arbeid(et) i Norge (1992) pertained to the field of gender and sexuality studies, and the former became controversial.
[4] In 2008 her son Øystein Gullvåg Holter became Norway's first professor of men's studies, having been appointed at the University of Oslo.