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Per Borten was Prime Minister in 1971, when the decision was made to establish the Nordic Council of Ministers. His government is used here to symbolise what Nordic governments looked like 50 years ago – with one or two female ministers (in this case justice minister Elisabeth Schweigaard Selmer and Minister of Family Elsa Skjerven). Above, today's five Nordic Prime Ministers, four of whom are women:
From the left:
Photos from digitalmuseum.no and government web sites.
Hans Christian Gabrielsen, who was elected President of Norwegian LO in May 2017, has died aged 53. He was found dead in his bed in the morning of 10 March. LO says the cause of death was probably heart failure.
His tragic death happened on the day after the measurement for NLJ's equality barometer was taken. Deputy President Peggy Hessen Følsvik has taken over for now, until LO representatives meet on 6 May. The LO secretariat has, however, recommended she continues in the position until the next congress in 2022.
That means four in five LO leaders in the Nordics are now women.
Photo: Henry Mai/LO
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