Karita Bekkemellem (born 15 January 1965 in

Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the municip ...

) is a Norwegian politician. She belongs to the

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, where she leads the women's network. Karita Bekkemellem was the

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in Jens Stoltenberg's short-lived 2000-2001 cabinet, and also Minister of Children and Equality Affairs in the second cabinet Stoltenberg from 2005 to 2007. She is in her fifth period of representing the county of

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. In the period from 2001 to 2005 she served as faction leader in the committee for church, education and research affairs. Her

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''Mitt røde hjerte'' (My Red Heart) was published in 2009. In this book, Bekkemellem described the circumstances surrounding her departure from the cabinet in 2007. She also described her childhood where her father had accidentally killed a girlfriend and turned to alcohol. She also wrote about her survival of a suicide attempt in 1992. It was also revealed that she in 1983, when she was 18, had voted for the right-wing Progress Party, though this was apparently based more on her liking of the politician

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than the actual politics of the party.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bekkemellem, Karita Ministers of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion of Norway 1965 births Living people Labour Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting Women members of the Storting Ministers for children, young people and families 21st-century Norwegian politicians 21st-century Norwegian women politicians 20th-century Norwegian politicians 20th-century Norwegian women politicians Women government ministers of Norway