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Encyclopedia > Alva Myrdal

Alva Reimer Myrdal (January 31, 1902February 1, 1986) received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. Myrdal was a Swedish diplomat, politician and writer. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Lester B. Pearson after accepting the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Gunnar Myrdal (December 6, 1898 – May 17, 1987) was a Swedish economist and politician. ...


Born in Uppsala, she first came to public notice in the 1930s, coauthoring a book entitled Crisis in the Population Question and was one of the main driving forces in the creation of the Swedish welfare state. The basic premise of Crisis in the Population Question is to find what social reforms are needed to allow for individual liberty (especially for women) while also promoting child-bearing. While heralding many sweeping social reforms seen as positive for Sweden, the book also incorporated some of the zeitgeist of the 1930s, in its promotion of the idea of positive eugenics. A long-time prominent member of the Social Democrat party of Sweden, in the late 1940s she became involved in international issues with the United Nations, appointed to head its section on welfare policy in 1949 and from 1950 to 1955 she was chairman of UNESCO's social science section - the first woman to hold such prominent positions in the UN. Uppsala (older spelling Upsala) is a city in central Sweden, located about 70 km north of Stockholm. ... There are three main interpretations of the idea of a welfare state: the provision of welfare services by the state. ... This article is about the German word. ... Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution: Logo from the Second International Eugenics Conference [7], 1921, depicting it as a tree which unites a variety of different fields. ... UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ...


In 1962 she entered the Swedish parliament and in 1962 she was sent as the Swedish delegate to the UN disarmament conference in Geneva, a role she kept until 1973. In 1966 she was also made consultative Cabinet minister for disarmament, which she also held until 1973. It was as a vocal supporter of disarmament that she in 1982 received the Nobel Peace Prize together with Alfonso Garcia Robles. Disarmament means the act of reducing or depriving arms i. ... Lester B. Pearson after accepting the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... Alfonso Garc a Robles (20 March 1911 – 2 September 1991) was a Mexican diplomat and politician who, in conjunction with Swedens Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. ...


She is the mother of Jan Myrdal and Sissela Bok. Jan Myrdal (born 19 July 1927 in Bromma, Stockholm) is a Swedish author, leftist-political writer and columnist. ... Sissela Bok, philosopher and ethicist, was born in Sweden the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal who won the Economics prize with Friedrich Hayek in 1974 and her mother, Alva Myrdal who won the Novel Peace Prize in 1982. ...


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Gunnar Myrdal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (167 words)
Gunnar Myrdal (December 6, 1898 – May 17, 1987) was a Swedish economist and politician.
He married Alva Myrdal in 1924, and fathered Jan Myrdal.
Myrdal is perhaps most famous for coining the phrase "An American Dilemma" in his book "An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy", originally published in 1944.
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