– I am very happy to have lived a modern woman’s life with a career and a rich family life, where I both had to be political on the marks and at the same time be there for my children, Helle Degn said in 2016 to Ritzau.
When she entered the Folketing, she already had experience from political work in the municipal council in Tårnby Municipality.
She has described herself as a real 68 & apos; er who would not let anyone rule over her.
When she entered the Folketing, however, women sometimes had to put up with a little more than they do today.
Helle Degn herself touched on this in a Facebook post on October 8 last year, the day after the Radicals’ then political leader, Morten Østergaard, had stopped at the post because he had been exposed as an offender.
– Greetings from all of us – we stand behind you and in the MeToo wave. We have tried it all – just drive on, Helle Degn wrote in a telling text for a picture from a lunch with, among others, party colleagues and administrators Ritt Bjerregaard, Jytte Andersen and Jytte Hilden.
Helle Degn sat in the Folketing until 2000, when she was only away in the period from 1975 to 1977. Here she worked as a teacher.
She was Minister for Development Aid from 1993 to 1994 and chair of the Foreign Policy Board from 1994 to 2000, when she left the Folketing after a total of 27 years. Along the way, she became the first woman to celebrate her 25th birthday in parliament.
She held a number of positions of trust, and from 1982 to 1987 she was chairman of the Gender Equality Council.
Helle Degn had two sons, the youngest of whom died a few years ago.
– I think he makes sure, every time I have an anniversary, to move the clouds a little to the side so the sun shines down on mom.
– I think he’s somewhere. At least he is in my heart, said Helle Degn in 2016 in an interview with the National Association Life & Death.
Source: The Nordic Page