In the rural district, Vennesla, 40% are housewives. And 60% are career women. The diagram beneath shows this. As regards to the education they have, we can see clear signs of lack of higher education in Vennesla (college,university etc.)

The diagram says that 40% of the population in Vennesla have finished primary school. 48% have finished secondary school. 12% have taken further education (university).

In the diagram we can see a clear change of attitude with adolescence.76% wants a higher education.

We interviewed Britt Sundt, a mother of three from Vennesla. She is 30 years old, married, and a housewife. Britt Sundt gives preference to staying at home with the children, because she wishes to give her children the same sense of security as she had during her upbringing. Sundt is of the opinion that her children have a safer environment by her being at home with her children, in comparison to sending them to kindergarten etc. Concerning the economic part, Sundt says that all excesses carefully. F.ex. Holidays, cinema visits and restaurants.

Britt Sundt is an educated nurse, and works part-time, something that makes it possible to combine family and work. She mostly works weekends.We asked her if she thought that Vennesla had more housewives than other towns in Norway. She thought that was a fact, since most of her female friends are housewives.

From a more extensive examination conducted by Agderresearch, it tuns out that (we quote): "When you look closer into the level of education for employees in Vennesla, we figured out that only 14% of the employees between 17 and 74 years in 1997 had a higher education. Only 1% has an education at universities for a time-span of 5 years or more. This is lower than the average of this country, which in comparison is 27% and 5%. There is a big difference between the number of secondary school-students, which are planning on taking a higher education, and the level of education among employees.