Minister of Gender Equality | |
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Ligestillingsminister | |
Ministry of Environment and Gender Equality | |
Type | Minister |
Member of | |
Reports to | the Prime minister |
Seat | Slotsholmen |
Appointer | The Monarch (on the advice of the Prime Minister) |
Formation | 27 September 1999 |
First holder | Jytte Andersen |
Succession | depending on the order in the State Council |
Deputy | Permanent Secretary |
Salary | 1.400.192,97 DKK (€187,839), in 2024 [1] |
The Minister for Gender Equality (Danish : Ligestillingsminister) is a Danish minister that works on improving equal gender rights. The first Minister for Gender Equality was appointed on 1 July 1999.
No. | Portrait | Name (born-died) | Term of office | Political party | Government | Ref. | |||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
Minister for Gender Equality (Minister for ligestilling) | |||||||||
1 | Jytte Andersen (born 1942) | 27 September 1999 | 21 December 2000 | 1 year, 85 days | Social Democrats | Poul Nyrup Rasmussen III Cabinet–IV | |||
2 | Lotte Bundsgaard (born 1973) | 21 December 2000 | 27 November 2001 | 341 days | Social Democrats | Poul Nyrup Rasmussen IV Cabinet | |||
3 | Henriette Kjær (born 1966) | 27 November 2001 | 2 August 2004 | 2 years, 249 days | Conservatives | Anders Fogh Rasmussen I Cabinet | |||
4 | Eva Kjer Hansen (born 1964) | 2 August 2004 | 12 September 2007 | 3 years, 41 days | Venstre | Anders Fogh Rasmussen I Cabinet–II | |||
5 | Eva Kjer Hansen (born 1974) | 12 September 2007 | 7 April 2009 | 1 year, 207 days | Venstre | Anders Fogh Rasmussen II Cabinet–III | |||
6 | Inger Støjberg (born 1973) | 7 April 2009 | 23 February 2010 | 322 days | Venstre | Lars Løkke Rasmussen I Cabinet | |||
7 | Lykke Friis (born 1969) | 23 February 2010 | 3 October 2011 | 1 year, 222 days | Venstre | Lars Løkke Rasmussen I Cabinet | |||
8 | Manu Sareen (born 1967) | 3 October 2011 | 28 June 2015 | 3 years, 268 days | Social Liberals | Thorning-Schmidt I Cabinet–II | |||
9 | Ellen Trane Nørby (born 1980) | 28 June 2015 | 28 November 2016 | 1 year, 153 days | Venstre | Lars Løkke Rasmussen II Cabinet | |||
Minister for Fishery, and Gender Equality (Minister for fiskeri og ligestilling) | |||||||||
10 | Karen Ellemann (born 1969) | 28 November 2016 | 2 May 2018 | 1 year, 155 days | Venstre | Lars Løkke Rasmussen III Cabinet | |||
(4) | Eva Kjer Hansen (born 1964) | 2 May 2018 | 27 June 2019 | 1 year, 56 days | Venstre | Lars Løkke Rasmussen III Cabinet | |||
Minister for Food, Fishery, and Gender Equality (Minister for fødevarer, fiskeri og ligestilling) | |||||||||
11 | Mogens Jensen (born 1963) | 27 June 2019 | 18 November 2020 | 1 year, 144 days | Social Democrats | Frederiksen I | |||
Minister for Gender Equality (Minister for ligestilling) | |||||||||
12 | Peter Hummelgaard Thomsen (born 1983) | 18 November 2020 | 4 February 2022 | 1 year, 78 days | Social Democrats | Frederiksen I | |||
13 | Trine Bramsen (born 1981) | 4 February 2022 | 15 December 2022 | 314 days | Social Democrats | Frederiksen I | |||
14 | Marie Bjerre (born 1986) | 15 December 2022 | 23 November 2023 | 343 days | Venstre | Frederiksen II | [2] | ||
15 | Mia Wagner (born 1977) | 23 November 2023 | 7 December 2023 | 14 days | Venstre | Frederiksen II | [2] | ||
14 | Marie Bjerre (born 1986) | 7 December 2023 | 29 August 2024 | 266 days | Venstre | Frederiksen II | [2] | ||
16 | Magnus Heunicke (born 1981) | 29 August 2024 | Incumbent | 55 days | Social Democrats | Frederiksen II | [2] |
Every Minister has held this title alongside another title. Jytte Andersen and Lotte Bundsgaard were also city and housing ministers. Henriette Kjær, Eva Kjer Hansen were social ministers. Karen Jespersen was also Social Minister, later welfare minister. Inger Støjberg was also employment minister and Lykke Friis was also climate minister. Manu Sareen, the first male Minister for Gender Equality, was also Church and Minister for Nordic Cooperation, and Ellen Trane Nørby were also Education minister. Marie Bjerre is also Minister for Digitalization.
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