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The Swedish government assesses all policy according to the tenets of gender mainstreaming. [4] [5] Women in Sweden are 45% of the political representatives in the Swedish Parliament. Women make up 43% of representatives in local legislatures as of 2014. [1]
Swedish suffragist Signe Bergman, around 1910 Women's suffrage demonstration in Gothenburg, June 1918. During the Age of Liberty (1718–1772), Sweden had conditional women's suffrage. [41] Until the reform of 1865, the local elections consisted of mayoral elections in the cities, and elections of parish vicars in the countryside parishes.
The current democratic regime is a product of a stable development of successively added democratic institutions introduced during the 19th century up to 1921, when women's suffrage was introduced. The Government of Sweden has adhered to parliamentarism — de jure since 1975, de facto since 1917. Since the Great Depression, Swedish national ...
Women government ministers of Sweden (103 P) L. Women legislators in Sweden (2 C) M. Women mayors of places in Sweden (8 P) Pages in category "Swedish women in politics"
The Andersson cabinet (Swedish: regeringen Andersson) was the government of Sweden following the resignation of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and the hasty election of Magdalena Andersson as his successor. It was expected to be a coalition government consisting of two parties: the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the Green Party.
Despite the new 13th NPC lineup including 742 women out of 2,980 representatives, about 24.9% of the total with a 1.5% increase from the prior term, [160] there is little presence of women in the central power structure of major government organs and their political influence is vastly diminished as they climb up the political ladder.
www.sweden.gov.se The Minister for Gender Equality ( Swedish : Jämställdhetsministern ) is a cabinet minister within the Swedish Government and appointed by the Prime Minister of Sweden . The minister is responsible for issues regarding gender equality , popular education and policies for the civil society .
The first independent country to introduce women's suffrage was arguably Sweden. In Sweden, conditional women's suffrage was in effect during the Age of Liberty (1718–1772). [1] In 1756, Lydia Taft became the first legal woman voter in colonial America. This occurred under British rule in the Massachusetts Colony. [22]