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Gender statistics on Sweden
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Translations of EIGE's work in Swedish
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Year of next Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Sweden will next assume the Presidency in 2023.
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- ResourceEmployment
Report on how the econoic crisis effect Swedish schools and teachers, and result in unemployment among teachers. Format: pdf-file
- ResourceEmployment
The report describe parents that use the parental leave in a gender equal way and the factos that increase the likelihodd that parents allocate parental benefit days between eachother....
- ResourceEmployment
These evaluation show that both the first and second reserved month increased fathers’ parental leave days.The results indicate that the parental benefit of caring for sick children is more equally di...
- Publication
Country profile of Sweden - Gender Equality Index 2015
- Country profile: Gender Mainstreaming
Sweden’s Constitution sets out to combat discrimination, including, among others, on the grounds of gender in Article 2....
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- ResourceHealth, Violence
The study is estimating both FGM prevalence and risk using a quantitative methodological approach....
- ResourceCulture
The Nordic countries are often noted for their high level of gender equality. The media sector is no exception and it is true that almost 50 percent of Swedish journalists are female....
- ResourceCulture
The book focuses on how women are represented in news media and a gender perspective on media and communication. Bibliographic Citation: ISBN: 91-44-03823-2 Format: 168 p.
- ResourceCulture
It is a study on how women are represented in media. Bibliographic Citation: ISBN: 91-7267-145-9 Format: 35 p.
- ResourceCulture
How can it be that women tend to be ill more often than men even though they in general live longer? The authors try to answer the question by examine a number of different factors and issues....