Gun Margareta Winberg (born ''Gustafsson'' 13 August 1947) is a

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politician. Winberg held various ministerial posts in the Third cabinet of Ingvar Carlsson and the

Cabinet of Göran Persson Göran Persson served as Prime Minister of Sweden between 22 March 1996 and 6 October 2006. Persson took over after Ingvar Carlsson, who retired as party leader and Prime Minister. Following the 2006 general election, he and the Persson Cab ...

from 1994 to 2003, and was

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from 2002 to 2003. She was

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from 1994 to 1996, and again from 1998 to 2002, Minister for Labour from 1996 to 1998, and, in addition, held the position of Minister for Gender Equality from 1998 to 2003. She became a very controversial figure in the public debate, after an interview she gave to the Swedish documentary ''

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'' in 2005. In the second part of the two-part documentary, Winberg expressed strong support for radical feminism, for the ideologist

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, and for requiring institutes of higher education to teach feminist theory as fact, in order to change society. Within the Social Democrats, she had a euro-sceptic profile, and was one of two ministers campaigning for the "no" side in the 1994

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on Sweden's membership in the

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. She similarly was against adopting the

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, 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

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