Solveig Horne

Solveig Horne (born 12 January 1969) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who served as Minister of Children and Equality in the Solberg Cabinet from 2013 to 2018.

She has later described how she was elected to her first position due to affirmative action, saying that a male candidate was passed over because the party needed to meet a female representative in order to achieve gender balance.

In Rogaland it became the largest party and swept both Horne and Ketil Solvik-Olsen into the Storting (who would both become ministers in the same cabinet eight years later).

[3] On 16 October 2013, after the defeat of the Red-Green Coalition and establishment of the Conservative-led Solberg's Cabinet, Horne was appointed Minister of Children of Equality, replacing Inga Marte Thorkildsen from the Socialist Left Party.

After her appointment, she outlined an agenda focusing on a reduction in the government-set quotas for paternity leave as well as an increase in the so-called "Cash-benefit" (Norwegian: kontantstøtte) in order to allow parents to keep children home instead of kindergarten.

[9] She was succeeded by Conservative Linda Cathrine Hofstad Helleland on 17 January 2018 after the Liberal Party joined the Solberg Cabinet.

[1] She has resided in the district of Jæren since moving to Sandnes at the age of 16, she now divides her time between Oslo and her home in Sola.

[1] A life-long Christian, Horne has described growing up in a religious household in Etne, a community of both meeting houses and Gospel Halls in addition to the official church, as well as attending Sunday school where her father was a teacher for over thirty years.

Minister Horne at the European Consumer Summit 2014.
Horne in Europride 2014