In its report, Allbright took a closer look at some of Sweden's fast-growing and leading tech companies such as Spotify, Storytel, Kry and Klarna. The average for the 14 companies was 29 percent women in management. If you include softer items such as HR & Communications, the line items, the business area managers, were owned by 88 percent of men.

The low representation of women at the top is not unique to the tech industry. But there is an expectation that companies that are founded by young men and with many young employees should have fresher values, says Amanda Lundeteg.  

- But we see that it is not. These are the same structures that go back to the old business world. The difference is that now we have Niklas, Daniel and Sebastian. Previously it was Leif, Göran and Anders.

Every fourth was discriminated against

A survey of 219 employees at the companies also testifies to an unwelcoming and discriminatory culture in the workplace for women and minorities.  

More than a fourth of the employees in the survey stated that they were discriminated against. Among those who experienced discrimination, 82 percent stated that the reason was gender, 59 percent that it was due to skin color / ethnicity and 33 percent that it was due to age.  

Every fifth woman stated that she was subjected to sexual harassment in the workplace. 

"Stopping at an event"

Nora Bavey, CEO and founder of the edtech company Unitech hopes that the results will become a megaphone and lead to more action from other companies.  

- We have a dialogue, the problem is that it does not go all the way up in the management team, but is happy to get stuck at an event. We see that you are happy to talk action plan for HR or open minded AI. But it does not matter what technology we employ when hiring. We will still meet people to people and that is where we have to start the job, ”says Nora Bavey.