Office: | Minister of Immigration |
Primeminister: | Ingvar Carlsson |
Predecessor: | Georg Andersson |
Successor: | Birgit Friggebo |
Term Start: | 30 January 1989 |
Term End: | 4 October 1991 |
Office1: | Minister of Gender Equality |
Primeminister1: | Ingvar Carlsson |
Predecessor1: | Ingela Thalén |
Successor1: | Birgit Friggebo |
Term Start1: | 30 January 1989 |
Term End1: | 4 October 1991 |
Birth Date: | 13 August 1936 |
Birth Place: | Eskilstuna, Sweden |
Party: | Social Democratic Party |
Nationality: | Swedish |
Maj-Lis Lööw (born 13 August 1936) is a former Swedish Social Democratic Party politician who served as the minister of immigration and minister of gender equality between 1989 and 1991 in the cabinets of Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson. She was also a member of the Swedish Parliament and the European Parliament.
Lööw was born in Eskilstuna on 13 August 1936.[1] She was a member of the Social Democratic Party and the chair of the Social Democratic Women in Sweden in the period 1981–1990.[2] She served at the Swedish Parliament for the Social Democratic Party between 1979 and 1995.[3] On 30 January 1989 Lööw was appointed minister of immigration, replacing Georg Andersson in the post.[3] [4] [5]
In the same period Lööw was also the minister of gender equality. His tenure ended on 4 October 1991.[5] She resigned from the Swedish Parliament in 1995 and served at the European Parliament as part of the Party of European Socialists of which she was vice president from 1995 and 1997.[1] Her term at the European Parliament ended in 1999.[1]