1990–1993
Berit Kvæven (born 19 November 1942) is a Norwegian chemist and politician for the Liberal Party. She has been Vice President of the Liberal Party,president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (2004–2006),President of Tekna and a deputy member of parliament.
Kvæven earned a civil engineer (MSc) degree at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1967 and was a research scientist at SINTEF from 1968. She earned a doctorate in chemistry from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1975. In later years,she has worked as Chief Engineer at the Norwegian Climate and Pollution Agency,where she worked on international assignments,including as head of the UN monitoring program for acid rain.
She served as personal secretary (i.e. political adviser) to the Minister of Government Administration and Consumer Affairs Eva Kolstad in Korvald's Cabinet 1972–1973 and as deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo during the term 1997–2001.
She was Vice President of the Liberal Party from 1976 to 1982,President of the Oslo branch of the Liberal Party in 1990 and president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 2004 to 2006. She was President of Tekna,the Norwegian association of engineers with around 50,000 members,from 1990 to 1993. She was also Vice President of the Confederation of Academic and Professional Unions in Norway,with around 200,000 members,from 1991 to 1993.
She has also been a member of several governmental committees and boards of directors in the fields of nuclear energy,pollution,agriculture and government reform.
Guro Fjellanger was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. She served as Minister of the Environment in the first cabinet Bondevik from 1997 to 2000. She was a private consultant and a board member of several government agencies and organisations,and a member of two government-appointed commissions.
Eva Severine Lundegaard Kolstad was a Norwegian politician and government minister for the Liberal Party. A major figure in the history of liberal feminism and the development of state feminism in the Nordic countries,she pioneered gender equality policies in Norway and at the United Nations. She served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (1956–1968),member and vice chairman of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (1969–1975),Minister of Government Administration and Consumer Affairs of Norway in Korvald's Cabinet (1972–1973),leader of the Liberal Party (1974–1976) and as Norwegian Gender Equality Ombudsman (1978–1988),the first gender equality ombudsman worldwide.
Berit Reiss-Andersen is a Norwegian lawyer,author and former politician for the Norwegian Labour Party. She is chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee,the 5-member committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize. She is also a board member of the Nobel Foundation,which has the overall responsibility for all the five Nobel Prizes. She served as state secretary for the Minister of Justice and Police from 1996 to 1997 and as president of the Norwegian Bar Association from 2008 to 2012. She has co-authored two crime novels with former Minister of Justice Anne Holt. She is currently a partner at DLA Piper's Oslo office.
Trine Skei Grande is a Norwegian politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Norway from 2010 to 2020. She also served as Minister of Education from January to March 2020,and as Minister of Culture and Gender Equality from 2018 to 2020. She was also a member of parliament for Oslo from 2001 to 2021.
Marit Nybakk is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party,a former First Vice-President of the Norwegian Parliament,the Storting,and a former President of the Nordic Council. From 2016 to 2018 she was President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights,the preeminent women's and girls' rights organisation in Norway.
Helene Falch Fladmark is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
The Norwegian Association for Women's Rights is Norway's oldest and preeminent women's and girls' rights organization and works "to promote gender equality and all women's and girls' human rights through political and legal reform within the framework of liberal democracy." Founded in 1884,NKF is Norway's oldest political organization after the Liberal Party. NKF stands for an inclusive,intersectional and progressive mainstream liberal feminism and has always been open to everyone regardless of gender. Headquartered at Majorstuen,Oslo,NKF consists of a national-level association as well as regional chapters based in the larger cities,and is led by a national executive board. NKF has had a central role in the adoption of all major gender equality legislation and reforms since 1884.
Torild Skard is a Norwegian psychologist,politician for the Socialist Left Party,a former Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a former Chairman of UNICEF.
Ebba Margareta Haslund Halvorsen was a Norwegian novelist,writer of short stories,playwright,essayist,children's writer,literary critic,radio speaker and politician.
Anna Georgine Rogstad was a Norwegian politician,women's rights activist and educator. A member of the conservative-liberal Liberal Left Party,she was Norway's first female Member of Parliament. A teacher by profession,Rogstad was deeply involved in the educational policies of the nation. She was a prominent leader in the women's rights movement and the campaign for women's right to vote,and was a co-founder and board member of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights and board member of the Association for Women's Suffrage. In 1911 she met in parliament as a deputy representative for Jens Bratlie,and held this position full-time after Bratlie became Prime Minister in 1912.
Jørgine Anna Sverdrup"Gina" Krog was a Norwegian suffragist,teacher,liberal politician,writer and editor,and a major figure in liberal feminism in Scandinavia.
Ida Cecilie Thoresen Krog was a Norwegian women's rights pioneer and Liberal Party politician,and the first female university student in Norway. She became famous when she was allowed to submit to examen artium in 1882,after an Act amendment had taken place. She was the first president of the women's rights association Skuld and a co-founder and vice president of its successor,the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. She was also a co-founder and board member of the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association. She was active in the Liberal Party and her liberal views also colored her involvement in the women's rights movement. She was elected a deputy representative in Christiania City Council for the Liberal Party in 1901,as one of the first women elected to a political office in Norway.
Margarete Ottilie Bonnevie was a Norwegian author,women's rights advocate and politician for the Liberal Party of Norway. A liberal feminist,she served as the 13th President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (NKF) from 1936 to 1946 and is credited with reviving the liberal women's rights movement in the 1930s. Bonnevie said that NKF should work for solutions that are in the best interest of all women and society,"be the captain who keeps a steady course" in the struggle for equality and "set out the main policy objectives and seek to get the government,parliament and local government bodies to implement the reforms that are required."
Fredrikke Marie Qvam was a Norwegian humanitarian leader,feminist,liberal politician and the wife of Prime Minister Ole Anton Qvam. She was the founder (1896) of the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association that grew to become Norway's largest women's organisation with 250,000 members,and served as its first President from 1896 to 1933,and as its Honorary President from 1933 until her death. She also served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1899 to 1903. She was widely regarded as one of the most influential and successful political lobbyists of her time,and was described in the journal Samtiden in 1915 as the "Queen of the corridors." She was addressed as "Madam Cabinet Minister" and later as "Madam Prime Minister",using her husband's titles.
Marit Johanne Aarum (1903–1956) was a Norwegian economist,liberal politician,civil servant and feminist.
Margaret Eide Hillestad is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party and a former deputy MP.
Aadel Lampe was a Norwegian women's rights leader,liberal politician,teacher for deaf children and suffragist in the late 19th and early 20th century. She was elected as a deputy member of the Storting in 1922,as one of the first women elected to the Norwegian parliament,and served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1922 to 1926.
The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict," according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee announcement on 5 October 2018 in Oslo,Norway. "Both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on,and combating,such war crimes," according to the award citation. After reading the citation,Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen told reporters that the impact of this year's award is to highlight sexual abuse with the goal that every level of governance take responsibility to end such crimes and impunities.
Beret Bråten is a Norwegian sociologist,political scientist and Labour Party politician. She was deputy leader of the Labour Party's youth wing,the Workers' Youth League (1992–1994),and was a political adviser in the Prime Minister's Office and a close confidant of prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland during his tenure from 1996 to 1997. From 2020 she is vice president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. Bråten holds a PhD in political science and is a senior researcher at the Fafo Foundation and an associate professor at the University of Oslo.