Career
She was an important figure in the work against powerty in the 1930s in Sweden and one of the most known woman politicians in Sweden of that time. Nordgren worked as a typographer from 1907. She was elected to the town council of Trelleborg in 1915, into the Executive Committee of the Social Democratic party in 1924, and to the parliament in 1926.
She had a good relationship with Per Albin Hansson, who used to say, that if he was ever to appoint a woman to the post of minister, then it would be her.
