Margareta Winberg

Gun Margareta Winberg (born Gustafsson 13 August 1947) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. Winberg held various ministerial posts in the Third cabinet of Ingvar Carlsson and the Cabinet of Göran Persson from 1994 to 2003, and was Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden from 2002 to 2003.^[1] She was minister for agriculture from 1994 to 1996, and again from 1998 to 2002, minister for employment from 1996 to 1998, and, in addition, held the position of minister for gender equality from 1998 to 2003.

Margareta Winberg
Margareta Winberg in June 2013
Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden
In office 21 October 2002 – 31 October 2003
Prime Minister	Göran Persson
Preceded by	Lena Hjelm-Wallén
Succeeded by	Marita Ulvskog (Acting)
Minister of Gender Equality
In office 7 October 1998 – 21 October 2002
Prime Minister	Göran Persson
Preceded by	Ulrica Messing
Succeeded by	Mona Sahlin
Minister of Agriculture
In office 7 October 1998 – 21 October 2002
Prime Minister	Göran Persson
Preceded by	Annika Åhnberg
Succeeded by	Ann-Christin Nykvist
In office 7 October 1994 – 22 March 1996
Prime Minister	Ingvar Carlsson
Preceded by	Karl Erik Olsson
Succeeded by	Annika Åhnberg
Minister for Employment
In office 22 March 1996 – 7 October 1998
Prime Minister	Göran Persson
Preceded by	Anders Sundström
Succeeded by	Björn Rosengren
Personal details
Born	Gun Margareta Gustafsson (1947-08-13) 13 August 1947 (age 77) Sjuntorp, Sweden
Political party	Swedish Social Democratic Party
Spouse	Jörn Svensson
Children	3

She became a very controversial figure in the public debate, after an interview she gave to the Swedish documentary The Gender War in 2005. In the second part of the two-part documentary, Winberg expressed strong support for radical feminism, for the ideologist Eva Lundgren, and for requiring institutes of higher education to teach feminist theory as fact, in order to change society.^[2]

Within the Social Democrats, she had a euro-sceptic profile, and was one of two ministers campaigning for the "no" side in the 1994 referendum on Sweden's membership in the European Union. She similarly was against adopting the euro, but as deputy prime minister, she held a low profile in the 2003 referendum on the issue.

From 2003 to 2007, she served as Sweden's ambassador to Brazil.^[3]

References

1. Members of the Swedish Government 1946- Archived 12 September 2005 at the Wayback Machine, Government of Sweden, accessed 9 July 2010
2. The Gender War (full documentary) Youtube link - english subtitles
3. Emma Elinor Lundin (July 2015). Practical solidarity: Connections between Swedish social democratic women and women in the African National Congress of South Africa, 1960-1994 (PhD thesis). Birkbeck, University of London. p. 340.

External links

• Margareta Winberg at the Riksdag website

Political offices
Preceded by Karl Erik Olsson	Minister for Agriculture 1994–1996	Succeeded by Annika Åhnberg
Preceded by Anders Sundström	Minister for Employment 1996–1998	Succeeded by Björn Rosengren
Preceded by Annika Åhnberg	Minister for Agriculture 1998–2002	Succeeded by Ann-Christin Nykvist
Preceded by Ulrica Messing	Minister for Gender Equality 1998–2003	Succeeded by Mona Sahlin
Preceded by Lena Hjelm-Wallén	Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden 2002–2003	Succeeded by Marita Ulvskog
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Staffan Åberg	Ambassador of Sweden to Brazil 2003–2007	Succeeded by Annika Markovic