"Now we see that development is going backwards and women's unpaid work continues to increase. Sweden has stopped taking steps towards equal pay and risks losing years of hard-won progress", says Susannah Sjöberg, Secretary General of Sweden's Women's Organizations in a press release.
Last year, the wage gap increased from 9.9 to 10.0 percent, according to the organization. One reason for the growing gap is that wages have increased more in the private sector, where more men work, while the increase has been smaller in the public sector, where women are in the majority.
Sweden's Women's Organizations are the initiators of the association "Pay for a Full Day", which brings together a large number of trade unions, political women's associations and women's organizations, and which today presents its annual calculation. The figures are based on the Mediation Institute's official wage statistics (2023) which show women's and men's average wages where wages are calculated as full-time.
