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Prior to 1940, gender inequality remained static. [28] In 2021, Statistics Sweden using polls found that while women and men were equally likely to vote, women were since the 1980s onwards increasingly voting for leftist parties and which represented an increase in polarisation of political views between men and women. [29]
Countries by Gender Inequality Index (Data from 2019, published in 2020). Red denotes more gender inequality, and green more equality. [1]The Gender Inequality Index (GII) is an index for the measurement of gender disparity that was introduced in the 2010 Human Development Report 20th anniversary edition by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The following list sorts countries by their estimated male to female income ratio according to the Gender Development Index of the United Nations. The ratio is determined by comparing the gross national income per woman with the gross national income per man in 2017. [1] * indicates "Gender inequality in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
Sweden's parliament on Wednesday passed a law that will make it easier for people to change their legal gender and lower the age at which it is allowed to 16 years from 18 years, despite heavy ...
Notably, all of the top dozen scoring countries were above 0.9, compared to only four in 2021. All of the lowest dozen countries were below 0.45, compared to only three being below that threshold in 2021. The top three countries were Denmark, Switzerland, and Sweden, with Denmark receiving a score of 0.932.
Feminism in Sweden is a significant social and political influence within Swedish society. [1] [2] Swedish political parties across the political spectrum commit to gender-based policies in their public political manifestos. [3] The Swedish government assesses all policy according to the tenets of gender mainstreaming.
This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the UNDP in its 2024 Human Development Report.According to the 2016 Report, "The IHDI can be interpreted as the level of human development when inequality is accounted for", whereas the Human Development Index itself, from which the IHDI is derived, is "an index of potential human development (or ...
In 2022, the Gender Equality Index score for the EU is 68.6 points out of 100, a 0.6‑point increase since the 2021 Index and only 5.5 points higher than in 2010. This marks an advance but at a slow pace. Progress in gender equality is largely driven by the domain of power, which conversely has the greatest gender inequalities in the EU.