The Labour Party, formerly The Norwegian Labour Party, is a social democratic political party in Norway. It is positioned on the centre-left of the political spectrum, and is led by Jonas Gahr Støre. It is the senior party in a minority governing coalition with the Centre Party since 2021, with Støre serving as the current Prime Minister of Norway.
Anders Andersen was a sawmill worker who participated in forming the Norwegian Labour Party.
Karita Bekkemellem is a Norwegian politician. She belongs to the Norwegian Labour Party, where she leads the women's network.
Mot Dag was a Norwegian political group. The group was active from the 1920s to the early 1930s and was first affiliated with the Labour Party until 1925. After World War II, many of its former members were leaders in Norwegian politics and cultural activities.
The Norwegian Association for Women's Rights is Norway's oldest and preeminent women's and girls' rights organization that 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 second 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.
Helga Aleksandra Karlsen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party, and the party's first female Member of Parliament. Coming from humble origins, she gradually made her way up through the organisation of the labour movement. She served two non-consecutive periods in parliament, but died shortly before she could be elected for a third term. She has been called the Labour Party's foremost female politician in the interwar period.
Jørgine Anna Sverdrup"Gina" Krog was a Norwegian suffragist, teacher, liberal politician, writer and editor, and a major figure in liberal feminism in Scandinavia.
Gustav A. Olsen-Berg was a Norwegian typographer and politician. He was the chairman of the Norwegian Labour Party 1893–1894.
Karen Grude Koht was a Norwegian educationalist, essayist and feminist pioneer.
The feminist movement in Norway has made significant progress in reforming laws and social customs in the nation, advancing the rights of the women of Norway.
Marie Elisabeth Michelet, née Storjohann was a Norwegian writer and housewives' leader.
Eigil Knutsen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He has served as an MP for Hordaland since 2017, and was previously a deputy member from 2013 to 2017.
Gunhild Ziener was a Norwegian socialist and politician. A pioneer in Norway's women's movement, she was the first president of the Norwegian Labour Party's Women's Federation when it was established in Christiania in 1901. Thereafter she fostered its extension throughout the country. She was also involved in launching the organization's magazine, Arbejderkvinnen.
Martha Ottomine Steen Tynæs was a Norwegian feminist, social worker and politician. She was one of the pioneering members of the Norwegian Labour Party's Women's Federation which she chaired almost without interruption from 1904 to 1920. From 1901 to 1918 she served as the only woman on the Labour Party's central committee and chaired Christiania's city council from 1908 to 1919. In 1909, she became the first Norwegian women to become a parliamentary candidate when she stood in the constituency of Hammersborg, although she was not elected.
Thina Nilsine Thorleifsen (1885–1959) was a Norwegian politician who was active in the women's movement. She was a prominent member of Den Kvinnelige Tjenerstands Forening from 1910 and its chair from 1915. After the association joined the Labour Party, she became a leading member of the Norwegian Labour Party's Women's Federation from 1918, remaining in key positions until 1953.
Hanna Adolfsen (1872–1926) was a Norwegian politician who was active in the women's movement. From 1920 to 1923, she headed the Norwegian Labour Party's Women's Federation, taking a more radical stand than her predecessors Gunhild Ziener and Martha Tynæs by supporting dictatorship of the proletariat and socialization in line with trends in Moscow.
The Norwegian National Women's Council was founded on 8 January 1904 as an umbrella organization for the various Norwegian women's associations. It was established by Gina Krog whose international contacts had revealed that the International Council of Women was keen to include a delegation from Norway. As a result of diminishing interest, the organization discontinued its work at the end of 1989.
Olav Johannes Strøm was a Norwegian trade union leader, and one of the pioneers of trade unions in Norway.
Anna Caspari Agerholt was a Norwegian women's rights activist and writer. She is remembered in particular for her groundbreaking Den norske kvinnebevegelses historie, published in 1937. Agerholt was a pioneering educator in social studies, giving a series of one-year courses for the Norwegian National Women's Council.
Anna Gjøstein was a Norwegian proponent for women's rights.
