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

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from 1994 to 2003, and was

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from 2002 to 2003. She was minister for agriculture, food and fisheries from 1994 to 1996, and again from 1998 to 2002,

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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 '' The Gender War'' 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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