1. POWER
Sweden has seen one of the world's most equal parliaments in terms of gender balance, but Parliament has never been completely equal. After the Swedish parliamentary elections in 2018, the female MPs increased from 43 percent to 46.1 percent. The majority, however, is 53.9 percent. In the government, women are more than men, with 12 women compared to 10 men. According to Statistics Sweden, female managers are most common in public operations such as municipalities and county councils, where seven out of ten are women, compared to the private sector where it is the opposite, that is, only three out of ten managers are women.
2. THE WAGES
According to the Mediation Institute's statistics from 2018, women's wages are on average about 89.3 percent of men's, a decrease of 0.6 percent compared to 2017. The pay gap is due, among other things, to occupation, age, working hours and education, but in addition, unexplained difference of 4.4 percent, according to the Mediation Institute. If the trend continues at the same rate, women's and men's wages will be equal in 20 to 25 years.
3. HEALTH
Women are far more sickly than men, which has consequences for income and pensions. When it comes to mental ill-health, women are sickened 30 percent more often than men, even though they have the same ability to work, according to a recent report from the OAG.
Men are over-represented in the statistics of suicide. In 2018, 1268 people died of suicide in Sweden. Of those, 70 percent, or 886 people, were men, according to statistics from the Public Health Authority.
4. THE FAMILY
Last year, 70 percent of the days with parental benefit and sick child care were taken out by women. According to the TCO's equality index, it would take 20 years at the current rate for the entire country to be classified as equals in terms of withdrawal of parental benefit and child care.
Women still do more unpaid work than men. It can be about things like cleaning, cooking or taking care of the children. According to Statistics Sweden's latest time use survey, women spend almost 27 hours a week on unpaid work, while men spend 21 hours a week on the same.
6. EDUCATION
Sweden's population is becoming more highly educated, and the proportion of women who read on after high school is now 49 percent, compared with 38 percent among men, according to Statistics Sweden's latest statistics. Of the 350,000 students who have started at the country's colleges and universities in the fall, the majority are women - 62 percent - according to the University and Higher Education Council.
7. CRIME
More men than women say that they have been subjected to abuse in 2018 according to statistics from the Crime Prevention Council. Men are more likely than women to be subjected to violence by unknown perpetrators, while women are overrepresented among victims of abuse in close relationships.