Ministry of Women

Ministry of Equality is a redirect to this article. For the equality of other social groups see Ministry of Integration .

Ministry of Women (also Ministry of Women's Affairs ) or Ministry of Equality (also Ministry of Equality ) is the name of a ministry that deals specifically with issues relating to women's rights and / or gender equality . Otherwise the portfolio of women's issues is usually held by a general family ministry or social welfare ministry .

list

since: Authority has existed since / founded: independent portfolio created

Head: Title of the office, possibly a link to a list (column sorted by office and department name)

Status: 6/2012

country	authority	short	since	Portfolios and Notes	established	ladder
Denmark	Ministeriet for Børn, Ligestilling, Integration og Sociale Forhold		2014	Children, equality, integration and social issues	?	Minister for Børn, Ligestilling, Integration og Sociale Forhold
Germany	Federal Ministry of Family Affairs	BMFSFJ	1994	Family , seniors , women and youth	1986 ( women )	Federal Minister for Women
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Ministry of Labor, Equality and Social Affairs	SM	2011	Work , equality and social affairs ,	2011 ( equality )	Minister for Equality
Lower Saxony	Ministry of Social Affairs, Women, Family, Health and Integration	MS	2010	Social affairs , women, family , health and integration	?	Minister for Women
North Rhine-Westphalia	Ministry of Health, Emancipation, Care and Old Age	MGEPA NRW	?	Health , emancipation, care and old age	?	Minister for Emancipation
France	Ministère des Droits des femmes	-	2012	Women's rights	1974 ( condition féminine )	Ministre des Droits des femmes
Gambia	-	-	2000	Women's affairs; Office of Vice President, with National Women's Council and Bureau	2000	Minister of Women's Affairs
Haiti	Ministre à la Condition Féminine et aux Droits des Femmes	MCFDF	2012 (?)	Women's affairs and rights	2012 (?)	Ministre à la Condition Féminine et aux Droits des Femmes
Japan	-	-	2007	Gender equality; Minister at the Cabinet Office for special tasks , with changing agendas	2001	内閣 府 特命 担当 大臣 (男女 共同 参 画 担当) Naikaku-fu tokumei tantō daijin (danjo kyōdō sankaku) / Danjo kyōdō sankaku daijin
Malaysia	Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat	KPWKM	?	Women, family and urban development	?
Namibia	Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare	MGECW	?	Equality and Child Welfare	?	Minister of Gender Equality
Norway	Kulturdepartementet	KUD	2019	Culture and equality	2019	Minister of Culture and Likestillings
Sweden	-	-	2011	Equality; Ministerial Office at the Utbildningsdepartementet ( Ministry of Education)	?	Jämställdhetsminister
Slovenia	Ministrstvo za delo, družino, socialne zadeve in enake možnosti	MDDSZ	2013	Work , Family , Social Affairs and Equality / Integration	2013	Minister za enake možnosti
Spain	Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad	MSSSI	?	Health , social services and equality	?	Ministro de Igualdad
South Korea	여성 가족부 / 女性家族部 Yeoseonggajokbu ( Ministry of Gender Equality and Family )	MOGEF	?	Equality and family	?	여성 가족부 장관 Yeoseonggajokbu jangwan
South Sudan	Ministry of Gender, Social Welfare and Religious Affairs	?	?	Gender, Welfare, and Religious Matters	?	Minister of Gender

Historical authorities

•  Germany : 1986 Federal Ministry for Youth, Family and Health renamed to Federal Ministry for Youth, Family, Women and Health ; 1991 Federal Ministry for Women and Youth
  •  Lower Saxony : Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Women, Family and Health until 2010
•  Gambia : Gambia Department of State For Women's Affairs (DoSWA)
•  Japan : set up in 2001, 2005, fighting the falling birth rate (少子化対策/ Shōshika Taisaku shared); two ministerial posts since 2007, held by the same person
•  Canada : Québec : Ministère de la Famille, des Aînés et de la Condition féminine  / Ministry of Families, Seniors and the Status of Women ( Ministry of Family , Senior Citizens and Women's Status, since 2011 Ministère de la Famille et des Aînés (MFA) ) 
•  Norway : 2006 Barne- og familiedepartementet renamed to Barne- og likestillingsdepartementet ; 2019: Barne- og likestillingsdepartementet back to Barne- og familiedepartementet
•  Austria : State Secretariat until 1991, 2000 at the Federal Ministry for Social Security and Generations ( Ministry of Social Affairs ), 2003–2018 Federal Ministry for Health and Women ( Ministry of Health )
•  Sweden : Integrations- och jämställdhetsdepartementet (integration and equality) until 2011

See also

• Women politics

Web links

Wiktionary: Ministry of Women  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

The ministries:

1. ↑ Ministeriet for Børn, Ligestilling, Integration og Sociale forhold
2. ↑ Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (bmfsfj.de)
3. ^ Ministry of Labor, Equality and Social Affairs
4. ↑ Lower Saxony's Ministry of Social Affairs (ms.niedersachsen.de)
5. ↑ Ministry of Health, Emancipation, Care and Old Age (mgepa.nrw.de)
6. ↑ Ministère des Droits des femmes (femmes.gouv.fr)
7. ^ Office of the Vice-President , ovp.gov.gm; Office of the Vice-President ( Memento of the original dated February 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , statehouse.gm/vice 
8. ↑ Ministre à la Condition Féminine et aux Droits des Femmes (mhave.gouv.ht) ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat (kpwkm.gov.my)
10. ^ Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare (mgecw.gov.na)
11. ↑ Ministrstvo za delo, družino, socialne zadeve in enake možnosti / Ministry of Labor, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (mddsz.gov.si , en)
12. ↑ Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad (msssi.gob.es)
13. ↑ 여성 가족부 (mogef.go.kr)
14. ↑ Ministry of Gender, Social Welfare and Religious Affairs ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2011) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on goss-online.org 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kulturdepartementet (av 2010) (2010–). In: regjeringen.no. November 7, 2017, accessed July 22, 2020 (Norwegian). 
2. ^ Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad de España , msps.es; Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad de España
3. ↑ often briefly 여성부 Yeoseongbu ( Ministry of Gender Equality )
4. ↑ also: 여성부 장관 ; 대한민국 의 여성 가족부 장관
5. ↑ Dept. of State For Women's Affairs , accessgambia.com, accessed June 2012
6. ^ Ministère de la Famille et des Aînés , www.mfa.gouv.qc.ca; Ministère de la Famille et des Aînés