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Gudrun Schyman (born 9 June 1948, Täby, Uppland) is a Swedish politician. She is currently the spokesperson of Feminist Initiative, a political party she co-formed in 2005. She served as leader of the Swedish Left Party from 1993 until January 2003. She remained a member of the Left Party until 2004, when she left to focus entirely on her feminist political work following a tax evasion scandal. She remained an independent member of parliament until 2006. Schyman has become known for controversial ideas, such as special male-taxation. ==Leader of the Left Party== In 1993 Schyman was elected party leader for the Left Party. Schyman's greatest asset was her appeal to the voters, and her party more than doubled its number of MPs during her leadership. She gained popularity for her candor; for example, she is open about her struggle with alcoholism and has supported the initiative to make the Riksdag an alcohol-free workplace.〔Therésia Erneborg, ("Gudrun Schyman: Det är alkohol-industrins vinstintressen som styr," ) ''Dagen'' March 1, 2003, retrieved July 26, 2011 〕 During her period as party president, the party adopted feminism as an ideological basis. In 2003 she was charged with and later found guilty of misleading the tax authorities by attempting to take illicit tax deductions.〔Åsa Kroon and Mats Ekström, ''(Vulnerable woman, raging bull or mannish maniac?: Gender differences in the visualization of political scandals )'', Working Paper 4, 2006, Örebro University : "Gudrun Schyman — Leader of the Left Wing Party 1993 – 2003," pp. 7–8, "The Schyman scandal," pp. 9–14 (pdf)〕 She was temporarily succeeded by Ulla Hoffmann. In 2002 she made a controversial speech concerning men's oppression of women, in which she said "The discrimination and the violations appears in different shapes depending on where we find ourselves. But it's the same norm, the same structure, the same pattern, that is repeated both in the Taliban's Afghanistan and here in Sweden".〔(Text of so-called "Taliban Speech" to 2002 Congress of the Left Party ) 〕 In October 2004, Schyman together with other MEPs of the Left Party proposed before the Riksdag, a national assessment of the cost of men's violence towards women; furthermore they demanded that the state fund women's shelters.〔Gudrun Schyman ''et al''., (Motion 2004/05:So616 Ansvaret för mäns våld mot kvinnor ), Sveriges Riksdag, October 5, 2004 〕 The proposal attracted wide attention, with the media calling it a "man tax."〔("Schyman in equality policy shock: tax men," ) ''The Local'' October 5, 2004, retrieved July 26, 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gudrun Schyman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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