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 MinisterGöran Persson
Preceded byLena Hjelm-Wallén
Succeeded byMarita Ulvskog (Acting)
Minister of Gender Equality
In office
7 October 1998 – 21 October 2002
Prime MinisterGöran Persson
Preceded byUlrica Messing
Succeeded byMona Sahlin
Minister of Agriculture
In office
7 October 1998 – 21 October 2002
Prime MinisterGöran Persson
Preceded byAnnika Åhnberg
Succeeded byAnn-Christin Nykvist
In office
7 October 1994 – 22 March 1996
Prime MinisterIngvar Carlsson
Preceded byKarl Erik Olsson
Succeeded byAnnika Åhnberg
Minister for Employment
In office
22 March 1996 – 7 October 1998
Prime MinisterGöran Persson
Preceded byAnders Sundström
Succeeded byBjörn Rosengren
Personal details
Born
Gun Margareta Gustafsson

(1947-08-13) 13 August 1947 (age 77)
Sjuntorp, Sweden
Political partySwedish Social Democratic Party
SpouseJörn Svensson
Children3

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

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  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.
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Political offices
Preceded by Minister for Agriculture
1994–1996
Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister for Employment
1996–1998
Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister for Agriculture
1998–2002
Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister for Gender Equality
1998–2003
Succeeded by
Preceded by Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden
2002–2003
Succeeded by
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Staffan Åberg
Ambassador of Sweden to Brazil
2003–2007
Succeeded by