The World's Best Country for Women

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From Michael Booth’s book 2014 - " The Almost Nearly Perfect People - behind the myth of the Scandinavian utopia " page 345
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for some years Sweden has a dedicated Ministry of Gender Equality ( recently amalgamated with the Ministry of Education )
Sweden has the most generous parental allowances in the world.
16 months leave on 80 % of wages guaranteed by law, to be taken whenever the parents feel like it up until the chlld is 8 years old. Two months of this are assigned exclusively to the father " Daddy leave
Introduced in 1995 85% of Swedish father’s take advantage of it."

Sweden has the cheapest childcare in terms of % of average wages in the Nordic region"
82 % of Swedish children are in day care…"

Overall, Booth’s final chapters on Sweden are not very complimentary- as many posters above pointed out it isn’t a " perfect uptopia"

I enjoyed this book.