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Gender equality is a cornerstone of Swedish society and nowhere is this better illustrated than in Stockholm. In the second season of A Woman's Place, you'll meet the city's leading experts in gender equality in the workplace and learn practical tips to make your business more diverse and inclusive. In the first season, you'll be introduced to eleven inspiring women who have found a city where they can fulfil their professional ambitions, where their voices are heard and where their gender i ...
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2.5 How norm criticism can make your company more gender equal
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The Local’s Sophie Miskiw sits down with Armina Etminan, education manager at Make Equal, a Stockholm based-company that has reached over 100 million people with its campaigns to help organisations and businesses engage practically with equality. Armina introduces the concept of norm creativity and explains how it can be used to create more inclusi…
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2.4 How to recruit with greater diversity
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"Recruitment is one of the most important tools to reach diversity within your workplace." The Local’s Sophie Miskiw is joined by Henrik Fröjmark, Managing Director of Rättviseförmedlingen, a Swedish fundraising foundation focused on promoting equality and diversity. Based in Stockholm, the initiative helps different projects, organisations and med…
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2.3 How to measure gender equality in the workplace
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"How can we in a specific situation make people feel at home, welcome, talk to each other in a more fair way, not stereotyping or excluding?” The Local's Sophie Miskiw is joined by Pernilla Alexandersson, CEO and founder of Add Gender, a Stockholm-based consultancy service committed to improving equality and diversity in the workplace. Pernilla dis…
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2.2 How to bring a gender equality policy to life
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In the second episode of A Woman's Place season two, The Local’s Sophie Miskiw sits down with Johanna Lundin, CEO and founder of Equalate, a Stockholm-based consultancy service dedicated to developing equality, diversity and inclusion within organisations. Johanna explains why all businesses should have a gender equality policy and, more importantl…
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2.1 How to increase female representation in leadership positions
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"Most of the organisations we at AllBright meet want to talk about, 'How do we find, hire and keep women?'. And they don't see how the recruitment process or promotion process is biased." Season two of A Woman's Place kicks off with The Local's Sophie Miskiw meeting Jennifer Råsten, training strategist at AllBright Foundation, a politically-indepen…
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Season one bonus episode: A Woman's Place at Almedalen Week
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"If you just have an organisation with white men, its going to be very boring." So declares Christer Modig, VP Radio of Nordic Entertainment Group, during an interview with The Local's Sophie Miskiw at Almedalen Week 2018. Gender equality was a recurring theme throughout the week-long event which takes place annually in Visby on the Swedish island …
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1.6 Jana, Iolanda, and the future of robots
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'People think 'social robots' will steal all our jobs. I get lots of disaster questions like, 'When will robots take over the world?'' For Jana Tumova and Iolanda Leite, a woman's place is in the lab. Both of the assistant professors moved to Stockholm to work in the Department of Robotics at the esteemed KTH Royal Institute of Technology, explorin…
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1.5 Margot Wallström and the mansplainers
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"Isn't it time that we try women in decision making and trying to make peace? Because men have really failed." Sweden's Minister of Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström is no ordinary politician. Throughout her 30+ year career, she has served as the United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict; European Commissioner for the Envi…
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"Just as there is a pay gap, there is an orgasm gap. Why aren’t we talking about that?" When it comes to taboo topics, this week's guests don't hold back. Host Samanda Ekman is joined by Irish author Denise Conway who moved to Stockholm for love in 2011...only to split up with her partner two days later. She decided to stay and, in the six years si…
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"We need to continue driving equality because if we don't have targets or a vision we can also fall behind." To the rest of the world, Stockholm may seem light-years ahead in terms of equality. But the Swedes know best of all that, without continued efforts, the situation can quickly regress. Host Samanda Ekman and The Local's James Savage are join…
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1.2 Dodi, Funda, and tech's glaring gender gap
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What do you do when you keep banging your head against the glass ceiling? "Sometimes the glass ceiling is so embedded in a culture that it's time to leave and go somewhere it's non-existent," says Funda Sezgi, a Turkish national who is now Chief House Officer at Stockholm-based impact tech hub, Norrsken House. Host Samanda Ekman is joined by Funda …
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1.1 Grace, Sara, and Stockholm's music tech scene
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When Australian native Grace McCallum entered an online competition to join the ABBA Choir, she never imagined she would end up uprooting her entire life and relocating to Stockholm. She was soon taken under the wing of music industry veteran Sara Herrlin, and the two have gone on to form Stockholm Music City, a movement bringing together Sweden's …
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