Gender equality

News about gender equality

• Handbook for Sweden's feminist foreign policy

  

  The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs is launching a handbook for Sweden's feminist foreign policy. This handbook should be a resource for international work relating to gender equality and all women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of human rights. It contains a selection of methods and experiences that can provide examples and inspiration for further work of the Swedish Foreign Service, other parts of the civil service and society as a whole. The handbook also describes the first four years of working with a feminist foreign policy. Thereby, it responds to the considerable national and international interest in this policy.

  • Handbook Sweden’s feminist foreign policy
  • Feminist foreign policy

• The Governments sub-targets for gender equality

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    Sub-target 1: Equal division of power and influence

    Illustration: Annika Carlsson

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    Sub-target 2: Financial gender equality

    Illustration: Annika Carlsson

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    Sub-target 3: Gender-equitable education

    Illustration: Annika Carlsson

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    Sub-target 4: An even division of unpaid housework and care work

    Illustration: Annika Carlsson

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    Sub-target 5: Gender-equal health

    Illustration: Annika Carlsson

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    Sub-target 6: Men’s violence against women must end

    Illustration: Annika Carlsson

  The Governments overarching goal of the gender equality policy is that women and men are to have the same power to shape society and their own lives. Starting from this objective, the Government is working towards six sub-goals.

  • Goals and visions