National Guidelines in Sweden - Government

National Plan of Action 1994

The plan includes:

• Efforts to increase the percentage of women holding management and other positions of leadership.
• Efforts to encourage men to take a greater share of parental leave.
• Evaluation of and measures to reduce pay differences between women and men at individual work places.
• Studies of women's and men's financial resources and power.
• A number of actions have been undertaken under the plan, including:
• Compilation of sex disaggregated statistics.
• Research on gender and women's issues.
• Analysis of proposals and decisions in various political spheres from a gender perspective at national, regional and local levels.
• County-level experts and advisors on gender issues.
• Training in gender issues at universities and colleges.

The Rights of the Poor

In this government communication to Parliament it was acknowledged that the majority of the poor are women and that policies and measures to combat poverty must take the "predominantly feminine face of poverty" as the point of departure when problems are defined, and projects planned, implemented and appraised.