ABSTRACT
During the postwar period the Swedish government has made deliberate efforts to decrease socio-economic differences in terms of income and wealth distribution, income growth and economic security. In the late 1960s another important dimension was added to the political agenda, namely the achievement of equality between the sexes (Persson-Tanimura 1988). The ‘equality’ platform drawn up by the Social Democratic Party in 1968 placed women among other disadvantaged groups, such as the young, the old, the handicapped, the unemployed, low-income groups and rural dwellers. The aims of the Swedish equal opportunities policy were also laid down in the document The Status of Women in Sweden (Sandlund 1971) which was submitted to the United Nations in the same year.
