To reduce the pay gap between men and women, the Left Party wants to allocate 30 billion kronor over a ten-year period to a gender equality fund. This is in addition to the wage settlements that unions and employers usually agree on.
This is an important election promise from us, Dadgostar says at a press conference before she joins the Left's May Day march in Stockholm.
According to the proposal, the social partners can then distribute the money to reduce the devaluation of female-dominated professions in the welfare sector. She points out that industrial workers earn several thousand Swedish kronor more per month despite not having more education.
It is pure value discrimination.
