Saturday, January 09, 2010

The land of equal opportunity?

It is remarkable that the perception of equality or the lack of necessity of it is so wide spread after all here in Sweden. There are not many days when the papers don't write about it. Of course it is better here than in many other countries but if we don't understand our own shortages of real equality.

According to the state statistic bureau (SCB), 1/10 of personnel managers prefer not to employ women with small children, 1/2 are negative to employ a person born in another country but only one percentage are unwilling to employ a person who is younger than 30. Their ideal candidate for a job is a...I assume that you can figure that out for yourself.

Young, well educated man without children.

So are we really doing enough here? How many years are acceptable to wait for the system change to happen without support? Is it even possible? What are you going to do for all that are being discriminated until then?

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