Culture and Recreation

2016-10-06

Gender Quotas and Role Models to Increase Women’s Time in the Music Studio

The Swedish Performing Arts Agency is a government agency. Its mission is to promote a wide range musical offering throughout the country, and to preserve and bring to life theatre, dance and music heritage. This mission also includes funding collaborative projects...

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2014-02-18

Lycksele Has a Good Grasp of Resource Allocation

For a number of years, the city of Lycksele’s leisure and recreation department has aimed at allocating its annual budget of SEK 25 million equally between girls and boys, women and men. The purpose is to facilitate quality leisure and recreation for all citizens...

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2014-02-13

New Rooms for Gender Equality

‘We’re still a bit surprised about the strong link between the physical environment and gender equality,’ says Katarina Johansson Storm, who works at the City of Kalmar. The City has worked with gender mainstreaming for a long time, and is often referred to as...

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Gender Equal Leisure

Stereotypes? No, this is a fair representation of reality according to Anna Klerby and Ingrid Osaka’s report on culture and leisure in Botkyrka outside Stockholm. The head of Botkyrka’s department of culture and leisure, Mattias Gökinan, has read the report....

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By: Include Gender