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2014-02-14

Landskrona – Equal Opportunities Coming Soon

The initiative concerns everything from the city’s flag guidelines to representation policy. The project ‘Jämlika Landskrona’ is focused on processes and sets the bar high. The city is determined to become a more attractive employer and the equality work shall...

Example Municipality Organisation and Work Life
By: Include Gender

Kalmar aims for gender-equal community services

Gender equality can be a matter of life or death – and of equal participation and opportunities in society. In one city, 80 per cent of the resources for school children with special needs went to boys, and in another, women with home care received fewer service hours...

Example Management Municipality
By: Include Gender

A management system for an improved sick-listing process

‘Landstingshälsan serves as a pilot project for a gender-mainstreamed management system for sick-listings in Värmland County.’ The system entails that aims and routines in eight areas are to be addressed via standardised forms and processes – from work...

County Council Example Management
By: Include Gender
2014-02-13

Hip, Hip, Hooray for Sahlgrenska!

It all started because the ambulance care staff at SUH came up with the idea of segregating statistics by gender. Patients with fractured hip or femoral neck (collum femoris) constitute the single largest  category of orthopaedic injuries which is dealt with by...

County Council Example Health care
By: Include Gender

When Gender Equality is Close to Heart

‘We are pretty certain that once patients arrive at the intensive heart care unit, we treat woman and men equally. But something happens before they get to us,’ says Lars Ekström at the Division of Cardiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Cardiology...

County Council Example Health care
By: Include Gender

Gender Equality at the District Health Care Centre

The district health care centre in Hässelby in the western part of Stockholm has 72 employees who handle 24 000 patients a year. Five years ago, the head of the centre, Erik Lucht, attended Stockholm County Council’s gender equality course for management staff, led...

Example Health care Municipality
By: Include Gender

Optimising the Patient Listing Process

Since 2002, the district health care centre in Skurup has had a special resource team for patients who have been sick-listed for more than four weeks. The team includes an occupational therapist, a social worker, a doctor, a psychologist, a physiotherapist and one...

Example Health care Municipality
By: Include Gender

Ground-breaking Agreement Reached

Anna Östbom is an expert on sick-listing issues at the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SKL). She has been part of including gender equality in an agreement between the Swedish Government and SKL regarding the annual so-called ‘healthcare...

County Council Example Health care
By: Include Gender

‘Now, If That’s Not Innovation…’

‘Within two years, we went from being extremely male-dominated with only ten per cent of the applicants being women to a situation where half of the applicants are women. Now, if that’s not innovation…’ Indexator’s CEO Pär Lärkeryd feels that the...

Enterprise and Industry Example Growth Entrepreneurship and Innovation
By: Include Gender

‘A Skirt Might Be Better?’

’The work kilt is great,’ says Jan Andersson, CEO of the Swedish work wear company Blåkläder. ’Wearing it in this macho domain takes guts. I was in Gothenburg yesterday and ran into a bearded guy with loads of attitude who was wearing a kilt. He said he does get...

Enterprise and Industry Example Growth Entrepreneurship and Innovation
By: Include Gender