Enequist was the daughter of the land rent master Axel Enequist and Anna Hederstedt. In the town of her birth, girls were denied the opportunity to gain a higher education so, unlike her three brothers, Gerd was sent to Gothenburg to live with a relative and receive private instruction. After completing her studies in 1923, she passed the exams earning a folk school teacher's degree in Luleå and moved to
Norrbotten, where she was hired as a teacher. Enequist earned a licentiate in philosophy in 1934 and a
doctor of philosophy in 1937 with her dissertation titled:
The Villages of Nedre Luledalen. A Cultural Geographical Study, which discussed the Norrbotten region and its population, buildings and businesses. The triangular diagram allows three data items to be compared at the same time, presented as percentages on a triangle. In their 1966 article, Enequist and Lennart Bäck first applied this method to cartography. The triangular diagram makes it possible to represent several territories according to three values, compare them and then apply a classification. The diagram shown concerns the percentage of jobs in three main groups: agriculture, industry and services, comparing a small number of towns. This representation allows readers to understand regional variations, the structuring of residential areas and the economic dominance of an urban unit. == Selected awards ==