Gender Dynamics across Reception and Integration in Sweden -  Erica Righard, Henrik Emilsson &

The government bill set the directions for the equality of opportunity politics for the 1990s; it stipulated that the overarching political goal is that men and women should have the same rights, obligations and opportunities within all spheres of life, and meant that men and women should bear equal responsibility for child rearing as well as household income and political participation in society. [...] In response to dissatisfaction with the continued prevalence of inequality between men and women, including unbalanced responsibility for home and care work and women’s lower salaries for the same work, in 2014 the government issued instructions for the evaluation of the goals of the policy (see instructions, Dir. [...] The big drop of the share of persons who are working as part of the program, is probably due to cuts in labour market programs, especially the so called ‘extra jobs’, together with the restructuring of the Employment Service that started in 2019. [...] The evaluation pointed to several gaps in the Swedish investigation service of cases of trafficking, and requested a strengthening of both training of judges and other professionals, and of the criminal law provision (GRETA, 2014). [...] In the evaluations of the implemented projects, it is, to the experience of the County Administrative Board, projects with a focus on needs and social conditions of the entire family – including men, women and children, and activities for all family members that have the most positive outcome in terms of gender equality.