In 1981 Brundtland was elected Prime Minister at the age of only 42 - Norway's youngest Prime Minister and the first woman in the post. One of the first things she did was to introduce a 40% quota ...

La présidence de cette commission fut confiée à Gro Harlem Brundtland, alors Premier ministre de la Norvège et qui fut ensuite appelée à diriger l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS). Paru en 1987 ...

Brundtland gained a reputation for speaking out. In 1994 she spoke out at the World Population Conference in Cairo. Her speech was considered highly controversial as she spoke with great ...

Like Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the UK, Brundtland has a reputation for toughness. She thinks that, to be a leader, you need to be forceful and that no-one thinks twice when men ...

In Brundtland's family, politics was seen as important: her father, who was a doctor, twice served as a government Minister. At the age of seven, she was enrolled as a member of the Norwegian ...

My husband and children have to take a back seat." Brundtland is quite unusual in that she succeeded in combining politics and power with a family: she has had four children. She was only able to ...

Gro Harlem Brundtland is a former prime minister of Norway and director-general of the World Health Organisation (1998-2003), and a founding member of The Elders, an international non-governmental ...