Word: brundtland
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Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, 47, is considered one of Western Europe's bright young up-and-comers, a woman who is working hard to earn an international reputation. In one area of politics she has already made an indelible mark: she presides over a government that is run, in large part, by women. Brundtland's 18-member Cabinet includes eight women, which gives Norway a higher proportion of females in top government positions than any other nation in the world. Says Brita Westergaard, head of Norway's Equal Status Council: "We are not just changing Norway. When people realize...
...Harlem Brundtland, 43, chairman of the Norwegian Labor Party and Prime Minister from February to October...
...Politics needs a woman's point of view," says Gro Harlem Brundtland, 41, former Environment Minister of Norway. The Labor Party agreed. Last week it installed Brundtland as her country's first female-and youngest-Prime Minister, following the resignation of the increasingly unpopular Odvar Nordli, 53. A physician with a Harvard master's degree in public health, Brundtland thus became the third member of that highly exclusive club-women heads of government (along with Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi). Nicknamed "the green goddess" for her impassioned protection of the Norwegian woods, Brundtland favors backing NATO strongly...
Said one Oslo resident, noting that Brundtland is married to a prominent member of the opposition Conservative Party: "If she can share a double bed with him all these years, getting on with the Conservatives in the Storting [parliament] shouldn't be too hard...