There is much talk about equality in Swedish sport.

But when SVT Sport goes through what the gender distribution looks like in Swedish elite sports, we see that it is far from equal.

Only 6.5 percent of coaches and sports managers are women. The worst is in the bandy, where just over five percent are women.

Basketball star Amanda Zahui is not surprised when she hears about the numbers.

- So it is everywhere. We hire and hire men just because they are men. You forget the women, though we can do it just as well or better, she tells SVT Sport.

However, "best" is precisely the basket, where 9.3 percent of the leaders are women. But there it actually goes in the wrong direction. This season marks the first time in several years that not a single club in Basketligan Dam has a female head coach, and the Swedish Basketball Association's secretary general Johan Stark that he can not remember when there were so few female coaches in the league series.

- It's a pretty big problem, he tells SVT Sport.

- We who are an equal sport in number of practitioners and an integrated sport in number of practitioners. We want it to be reflected even among those in leadership positions. Because then I think we will be even stronger and our strengths will emerge even more. So I think it's a big challenge, there's no talking about it. We do not duck to say that it is a problem.

Do you feel that the elite clubs also think it is a problem?

- Yes, I think so. I think everyone sees the same thing, that there is a strength in having a nice composition on all the parameters that I talk about. But you have to ask questions to the right people, so that we are based on what it is.

- So now we will ask an external player to contact former female practitioners and leaders to see why they went a different route in their careers. We hope there will be more clarity in the answers.

Scientist Jenny Svender, an expert on gender equality issues at the Swedish Sports Federation, believes that it is clearly a problem for Swedish sports that the proportion of female leaders is so much smaller than the proportion of men.

- After all, we risk losing resources in the form of experience and skills if we have too narrow a recruitment base because we have a narrow picture of who can exercise leadership. Then we risk losing these skills, she says.

See the entire report here, including the researcher's explanation as to why it looks like it does:

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