Editing Gudrun Schyman (section)

==Leader of the Left Party==
In 1993, Schyman was elected leader of 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 was open about her struggle with [[alcoholism]] and supported an initiative to make [[Parliament of Sweden|the Riksdag]] an alcohol-free workplace.<ref>Therésia Erneborg, [http://www.dagen.se/dagen/article.aspx?id=147653 "Gudrun Schyman: Det är alkohol-industrins vinstintressen som styr,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001024026/http://www.dagen.se/dagen/article.aspx?id=147653 |date=2011-10-01 }} ''Dagen'' March 1, 2003, retrieved July 26, 2011 {{in lang|sv}}</ref> 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 deduction]]s.<ref>Åsa Kroon and Mats Ekström, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110927050050/http://www.oru.se/PageFiles/16240/4_06.pdf Vulnerable woman, raging bull or mannish maniac?: Gender differences in the visualization of political scandals]'', Working Paper 4, 2006, [[Örebro University]]: "Gudrun Schyman &mdash; Leader of the Left Wing Party 1993 – 2003," pp. 7–8, "The Schyman scandal," pp. 9–14 (pdf)</ref> 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".<ref name="Taliban">{{cite news | last = Sjölund | first = Jill | title = Jämo: Ni är ju som talibaner | newspaper = [[Aftonbladet]] | date = October 9, 2006 | url = http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/kvinna/story/0,2789,903144,00.html | language = sv | access-date = May 18, 2007 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061116200115/http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/kvinna/story/0,2789,903144,00.html | archive-date = November 16, 2006 }}</ref><ref name="TalibanText">[http://www.helgo.net/enar/politik/talibantalet.html Text of so-called "Taliban Speech" to 2002 Congress of the Left Party] {{in lang|sv}}</ref>

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]].<ref>Gudrun Schyman ''et al''., [http://www.riksdagen.se/webbnav/?nid=410&doktyp=mot&rm=2004/05&bet=So616&dok_id=GS02So616 Motion 2004/05:So616 Ansvaret för mäns våld mot kvinnor], Sveriges Riksdag, October 5, 2004 {{in lang|sv}}</ref> The proposal attracted wide attention, with the media calling it a "man tax".<ref>[http://www.thelocal.se/468/20041005/ "Schyman in equality policy shock: tax men,"] ''The Local'' October 5, 2004, retrieved July 26, 2011.</ref>