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The Swedish anthropologist Bertil Lundman introduced the term "Nordid" to describe the Nordic race in his book The Races and Peoples of Europe (1977) as: "The Nordid race is light-eyed, mostly rather light-haired, low-skulled and long-skulled (dolichocephalic), tall and slender, with more or less narrow face and narrow nose, and low frequency ...
In 1902 the Swedish Society for Woman Suffrage was founded, supported by the Social Democratic women's Clubs [24] to achieve the final reform in women's civil rights: women suffrage. [24] Another important goal at this point was to make it possible for women to access the same professions as men on higher levels, which was denied them even when ...
Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (SKBL), known in English as Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women, is a Swedish biographical dictionary of Swedish women. It was started in 2018 when 1,000 articles about Swedish women were published in Swedish and English and a further 1,000 articles were published in 2020. [ 1 ]
^a The total figure is merely an estimation; sum of all the referenced populations who claim Swedish ancestry worldwide and as such might be misleading or exaggerated. ^b Since there are no official statistics regarding ethnicity in Sweden, the number does not include ethnic Swedes who were born abroad but now repatriated to Sweden, nor does it include Swedish-speaking Finns in Sweden; est ...
A 2010 Eurobarometer poll on violence against women found that victim blaming attitudes used to be common in Denmark: 71% of Danes agreed with the assertion that the "provocative behaviour of women" was a cause of violence against women, well above the 52% European average. [34]
The Scandinavian tradition of "cozy time" involves lighting candles, putting on warm fuzzy socks and comfy clothes, and enjoying hobbies like knitting or listening to music. "It is almost like a ...
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Swedish This category exists only as a container for other categories of Swedish women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden; lit. ' the North ') [2] are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway [a] and Sweden; the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; and the autonomous region of Åland.