75 years until equal pay

This is originally a post from LinkedIn, you will find it here.

Louise Gauffin and Helen Szoke, from NGO Oxfam, published today an article in Swedish, that points out that it will take 75 years until there is equal pay (in the G20 countries).
Oxfam means that the current politic of today is gender blind, with mostly men that takes little notice of women as a group.
The article can be read in Swedish here, and if anoyone wants to try a Google Translate in English, it can be found here.
As the authors comment, there is a necessity to conduct a politic that focus on elimination the pay gap, and decrease the segregation between genders.
In Sweden we have a possibility to share the parental leave between men and women. Sometimes there are also comments about our equal labor market. Sadly enough there is neither equal parental leave, nor equal labor market. ("Not even in Sweden".)
To really create equal conditions, we need
- first of all to decrease all obstacles that in some way prevent women from being genuine active on the labor market, and
- secondly increase all support system that inspire and strengthen women to fully participate in our society.
That means an active and forceful campaign regarding day care for children, care for elderly people and sick family members, educated and inspirational leaders in all work places and routines, regulations and policies that truly strengthen all equal conditions.

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