Eva Winther
{{Short description|Swedish politician (1921–2014)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image =
| caption =
| office = Minister for Migration and Gender Equality
| term_start = 18 October 1978
| term_end = 12 October 1979
| predecessor =
| successor =
| primeminister = Ola Ullsten
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1921|08|03|df=y}}
| birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden
| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|05|26|1921|08|03|df=y}}
| death_place = Kungsbacka, Sweden
| resting_place = Skogskyrkogården, Stockholm, Sweden
| spouse =
| children = 3
| occupation = Paediatric nurse
| alma_mater =
| party = Liberal People's party
}}
Signe Inger Eva Winther (née Fornander; 3 August 1921 – 26 May 2014) was a Swedish Liberal People's party politician She entered politics in 1966, representing the Liberal People's party on the Kiruna town council. She was then a member of the Norrbotten county council and was elected to the Swedish parliament in the 1976 election. She was the minister for migration and gender equality in the period 1978–1979. After losing her parliamentary seat in the 1982 election, she became a member of the Halland county council, for which she was deputy chair for three years.
Early life and education
She was born in Stockholm on 3 August 1921 to Captain Martin Fornander and Gunhild Fornander.{{cite web|author=Anders Johnson
|title=Signe Inger Eva Winther|url=https://skbl.se/en/article/EvaWinther|publisher=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon|access-date=1 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515055725/https://skbl.se/en/article/EvaWinther|archive-date=15 May 2021}} She received education in the field of paediatric nursing.
Career
Winther started her political career when she was elected to the Kiruna town council from the Liberal People's party in 1966 and remained in the post until 1976. Then she became a member of the Norrbotten county council and was elected to the Swedish parliament in the 1976 election. At the parliament she served as the chair of the labour market committee (1977–1978) and then as a member of the same committee (1979–1982). On 18 October 1978 Winther was named as the minister for migration and gender equality as part of the cabinet led by Prime Minister Ola Ullsten, and she remained in the office until 12 October 1979.{{cite thesis|author=Emma Elinor Lundin|title=Practical solidarity: Connections between Swedish social democratic women and women in the African National Congress of South Africa, 1960-1994|pages=322,340|degree=PhD|url=https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40170/|location=Birkbeck, University of London|date=July 2015}}{{cite journal|author=Carl Dahlström|title=Rhetorical Objectives and Program Efficiency in Swedish Policy about Immigrants
|journal=Journal of Public Policy|year=2007|volume=27|issue=3|page=337|doi=10.1017/S0143814X07000736}} She served at the parliament until 1982. Then she became a member of the Halland county council in the period 1985–1991 and was the deputy chair of the council from 1988 to 1991.
Personal life and death
Winther was married and had three children, a son and two daughters. She died in Kungsbacka on 26 May 2014 and was buried at the Skogskyrkogården cemetery in Stockholm.
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Category:20th-century Swedish women politicians
Category:21st-century Swedish women
Category:Burials at Skogskyrkogården
Category:Members of the Riksdag from the Liberals (Sweden)
Category:Women government ministers of Sweden
Category:Ministers for gender equality of Sweden
Category:Ministers for migration and asylum policy of Sweden
Category:Politicians from Stockholm
Category:Members of the Riksdag 1976–1979