Siv Friðleifsdóttir

{{Short description|Icelandic politician (born 1962)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}

{{icelandic name|Siv}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Siv Friðleifsdóttir

| image = Siv Fridleifsdottir (F) ordforande i Nordiska radets valfardsutskott, Nordiska radets mote i Stavanger. 2008-04-15.jpg

| order = Minister of Health and Social Security

| primeminister= Geir Haarde

| term_start = 7 March 2006

| term_end = 24 May 2007

| predecessor = Jón Kristjánsson

| successor = Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson (as Minister of Health)
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (as Minister of Social Affairs and Social Security)

| office2 = Minister for the Environment

| primeminister2= Davíð Oddsson; Halldór Ásgrímsson; Geir Haarde

| term_start2 = 1999

| term_end2 = 2004

| predecessor2= Guðmundur Bjarnason

| successor2 = Sigríður Anna Þórðardóttir

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|08|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Oslo, Norway

| religion =

| spouse = Þorsteinn Húnbogason

| children = Two sons (b. 1985, 1993)

| alma_mater = University of Iceland

| profession =

| party = Progressive Party

}}

Björg Siv Juhlin Friðleifsdóttir (born 10 August 1962), commonly known as Siv Friðleifsdóttir,{{cite news |author1=Valgerður Þ. Jónsdóttir |title=Bernskubrek |url=https://timarit.is/page/1960053#page/n3/mode/2up |access-date=21 September 2024 |work=Morgunblaðið |date=18 February 2000 |page=4D |language=Icelandic |via=Tímarit.is}}{{open access}}{{cite news |title=Sögð ekki kunna að rita nafn sitt |url=https://timarit.is/page/3706401#page/n16/mode/2up |access-date=21 September 2024 |work=Fréttablaðið |date=6 September 2003 |page=17 |language=Icelandic |via=Tímarit.is}}{{open access}} is an Icelandic politician. She is half-Norwegian, having partly grown up in Norway, where she spent almost every summer next to the Oslofjord with her grandparents.{{cite web | url=http://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/artikler/portrett/portrait-2004/article.2012-11-11.5290815452/ | title=Siv Fridleifsdottir and the Icelandic chairmanship of the Nordic Council of Ministers 2004 — Nordic Labour Journal }}

She was a member of the Althing (Iceland's parliament) for the Progressive Party for the Reykjanes constituency from 1995 to 2003 and represented the Southwest Iceland constituency from 2003 to 2013. She has been Chairman of the Progressive Party parliamentary group since 2007, was Minister of Health and Social Security from 2006 to 2007, and Minister for the Environment and Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 1999 to 2004.[http://www.althingi.is/cv_en.php4?ksfaerslunr=72 CV at Althing website].

One of her notable policies was to make it illegal for strip clubs (and strippers) to operate in Iceland. This was made possible by parliament trying to develop feminist policies.{{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2010/03/24/Bill-in-Iceland-makes-stripping-illegal/UPI-19411269468866/ |title= Iceland's Strip Club Ban | publisher=United Press International| date=24 March 2010| access-date=2 May 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16567&ew_0_a_id=359882|title=Legislation Bans Stripping in Iceland|access-date=6 June 2010|work=Iceland Review| date=24 March 2010}} Iceland's sex industry was shut down by feminist politicians on 30 July 2010. Under Siv's law, Iceland became the first European country to ban strip clubs.