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JämställdhetsombudsmannenDrottninggatan 92, 103 68 Stockholmwww.jamombud.se / [email protected]
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Sex discrimination inworking life
Presentation at the Dutch-Swedish conference on gender equality by Swedish Equal Opportunities Ombudsman/Eva Nikell, Public Relations Manager
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Mission and organisation of EOO
Handling sexdiscriminationcomplaints
Information andopinion-formingactivities
Scrutiny, guidance,Lecturing and development work
Combatting sex discriminationPromoting gender equality
Legal dept Scrutiny and Development dept
Information and Communicationsdept
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Handling of complaints about sex discrimination
ComplaintImpartialInvesti-gation
Sexdiscrimi-nation
EOOrepresentscom-plainant
Neg. withemployer
Settle-ment
Legalaction
Courtruling
Not sexdiscrimi-nation
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Three managers in four are men
(Statistics Sweden 2008)
Private sector, women
Private sector, men
Public sector, women
Public sector, men
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Weighted for age,education, working hours, sector and occupation
Men have higher average salary than women
84%
94%100%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Women Men
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226 complaints to EOO in 2007 regarding working life
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120
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180
Women Men
Parental Leave Act,62+10
Equal Opportunities Act,114+40
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Complaints about sex discrimination in working life in 2007
Terms of pay andemployment, 49
Employment, 42
Dismissal, 27
Harassments, 24
Management, 8
Other, 4
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Complaints about mistreatment in connection with parental leave in 2007
Pay and terms ofemployment, 43
Employment, 15
Dismissal, 10
Other, 4
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202 cases regarding working life completed in 2007
Notdiscrimination,80
Settlement, 30
Withdrawn, 24
Expired, 12
Unionrepresents, 44
Others, 12
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The new Discrimination Act
• Section 1
”The purpose of this Act is to combat discrimination
and in other ways promote equal rights and opportunities regardless of sex, transgender identity or expression,
ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability,
sexual orientation or age.”