Gudrun SCHYMAN Member of Swedish Parliament and Founder of Feministiskt Initiativ, Stockholm
CV
| 1970-1988 | working as a social-worker and in periods 1977-1985 also with documentary films. |
| Since 1988 former leader of the Socialist Left Party, member of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen) where she has been a member of, among others, the standing committees for culture, social well-fare and for foreign affairs. She is trained as a social worker, specialized in municipal social care services in general and child abuse and victims of incest in particular. | |
| Since the early 1980s Schyman has been active in the Swedish and international peace movement. | |
| 1992 | Gudrun Schyman became an adviser in the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research (TFF) and a member of the board in 2003 and an adviser again in 2005. |
| 2003-2004 | Schyman has emphasised - both in the Parliament and outside - the feminist dimension of politics and social affairs in general and in security politics in particular. She was the chairperson of the Swedish branch of Women Without Borders - Kvinnor Utan Gränser, KUG. |
| 2003 | She launched a multi-year democracy and public education project that aims to de-construct the patriarchal order and lead our gender-split society into one humanity. |
| 2004 | Schyman resigned from her party, to concentrate fully on feminism, security and related matters as well as raising public awareness about them. |
| 2005 | she started Feministiskt Initiativ. |
