Here, you who are volunteers, social workers, teachers, pupils, students etc can get hold of underpinning facts for your work, in different subjects concerning equality, violence against women, integration and much more.
You'll find information about International Women's Day, about gender perspectives, women and politics, trafficking, religion and lots more.
If you use the material in your work, you are also welcome to contact the web editor who can alert other site users to your work.
Feminism and gender perspectives
No-one who has children ? or knows someone with children ? can doubt that gender matters. Even before we ask if the baby is well, we want to know if it's a boy or a girl. No sorting mechanism in society is as important as gender and most societies regard women as being worth less than men. Read more>>
Also read about the Gender perspectives in development work. Read more>>
Women in politics
Women in Sweden got voting rights in 1919 but it took 26 years before the first woman minister was appointed. Read more>>
International Women's Day
8 March is the date when the world celebrates International Women's Day, but it hasn't always been so. There was a long road to securing this date in the calendar, going back nearly one hundred years. Read more>>
Trafficking
Trafficking, which also extends to the trading of men, children and human organs, is today the third largest source of income for organised crime world wide. Only narcotics and the arms trade are bigger. Read more>>
The Sex Industry on the Net
Whoever wishes to is free to publish material and express their views on the Net. In this respect, the Internet is the world's biggest democracy project which no regime can stop. But it also means that xenophobic, mysogynist and other discriminatory views can be spread and are hard to stop or regulate. Read more>>
Are we influenced by the media?
The Samarbeta Jämt project wants to influence developments towards a more equal society. One of the areas in which the project works is to increase understanding of how the media separates men and women. We aim to build opinion against the increased sexualisation of girls and women in our surroundings.
At this link you can download a brochure about media analysis. Read more>>
Religion
There are many different religions in the world. They have all arisen in different ways, at different points in time and in different places. Here we present six religions that have all influenced the world and Sweden in many ways. Read more>>
