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Lena Sommestad
Swedish politician and economic historian From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lena Sommestad (born 3 April 1957) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician and economic historian. She was Minister for the Environment in the Ministry of Sustainable Development in the Cabinet of Göran Persson from 2002 to 2006.
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Sommestad studied social sciences at Uppsala University and received a PhD degree in 1992. From 1998 to 2002 she was the managing director of the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies (Institutet för framtidsstudier). She had not held a politically elected office before Prime Minister Göran Persson made her Minister for the Environment in October 2002.[1]
Between April 2014 and March 2020, she was County Governor of Halland.[2]
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Selected bibliography
- "Sågverksarbetarna i strukturomvandlingen: hur arbetsstyrkan vid Söderhamns och Söderalas exportsågverk förändrades till storlek och sammansättning under mellankrigstiden" - 1983.
- "Från mejerska till mejerist: en studie av mejeriyrkets maskuliniseringsprocess" - 1992.
- "Rethinking gender and work: rural women in the Western world" - 1995 Gender & Society no. 1.
- "Welfare state attitudes to the male breadwinning system: the United States and Sweden in comparative perspective" - 1997 International review of social history no. 5.
- "Kvinnor mot kvinnor: om systerskapets svårigheter" - 1999 Redaktör tillsammans with Christina Florin and Ulla Wikander.
- Befolkning och Välfärd—Demografiska förutsättningar för framtidens välfärdspolitik. Institutet för framtidsstudier 2002, editor.
- "The hidden pulse of history", Scandinavian Journal of History, 25, pp. 131–146 - with Bo Malmberg.
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