President Karin Maria Bruzelius has described NKF's liberal feminism as "a realistic, sober, practical feminism". Sweden Sweden has been implementing gender equality through government policy since the 1960s. It was not until the 70s and 80s though, that Sweden would recognize gender equality as its own policy area. Even then, policy only dealt with labor issues involving gender. In 1976, Sweden would create the position of Minister for Gender Equality who would be responsible for maintaining gender equality. Later, in 1982, the Gender Equality Division was founded to help the minister in the "development of principles of gender equality policy, the preparation of gender equality legislation, and the co-ordination of this legislation with the other ministers." Sweden also has the Gender Equality council which consists of "representatives from the women’s movement... political parties, NGOs and the social partners" and meets with the minister 4 times a year. Along with previously mentioned government policy, Sweden has also designed its own women policy agencies connecting the government to state feminism. In addition, women's movements have had historical success with government putting into effect their demands. This relationship has created an expectation from women's movements that the Welfare state will bring out "public measures for gender equality". One branch of Swedish women policy agencies is their Women Resource Centres (WRC). WRCs receive public funding to balance out the gender representation of regional development policy. The Swedish government started funding the WRCs in the 1990s after an aliiance formed between "women's movement, feminist researchers and feminist politicians". As of 2005 there was around 150 WRCs in the country. In 1980 The Act on Equality between Women and Men at Work was passed and along with it came 2 councils to enforce it, the Equal Opportunities Ombudsman and the Equal Opportunities Commission. This policy was initially ineffective because it only covered "discrimination issues on the labour market not covered by collective agreements". A change was made in 1994 which removed the collective agreements exclusion and forced all workplaces over 10 workers to have a gender equality plan. Middle East In the 1980s and 1990s, "feminist activists and scholars in the Middle East assailed the limits of 'state feminism' and exposed its patriarchal dimensions." Communist and Socialist regimes "Sharon Wesoky characterized the relationship of an emergent women's movement to the [Chinese] state as 'symbiotic,' containing elements of both autonomy and dependence, and operating largely within rather