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When will Borgen come true?

Sidse Babett Knudsen (above) played the role as Denmark's first female Prime Minister, in Danish Radio, succesful TV-production, sold to many other countries as well.

Queen Margrethe II

Queen Margrethe

Photo: Klaus Møller

Denmark CURVE Equality curve
Most important female victories
  • Nina Bang, Minister of Education 1924. The world's first female minister in a democratically elected government.
  • Queen Margrethe, 1972
A Nordic first
  • Head of the blue collar union, Kirsten Stallknecht, 1977

(Danish Salaried Employees' and Civil Servants' Confederation)

Denmark has never had:

A female

  • Prime minister
  • Chairman of the labour union LO
  • Chairman or Director of the Confederation of Danish Employers
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