Sweden: The road to the European Union and its member states\u27 governments to gender equality in the parliament and government

Gender inequality has long been a problem around the world especially in the context of the labour market and politics. With its history originating since ancient times, gender inequality has caused several problems for both women and men, especially for women, and still remains unsolvable. As the main actor in today postmodernist world, states have the obligation to solve this dilemma which haunts all aspects of life, especially in the labour market and in politics. One of the most successful states that have achieved an almost gender-equal state is Sweden, which struggled through years of gender mainstreaming and has finally been recognized as the most gender-equal state in 1995 by the United Nations in the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing. With a steady performance of having an almost-equal number of women and men in its national parliament and cabinet, Sweden experience with gender equality can serve as a model to increase women representation witn the European Union by influencing it to adopt Sweden successful measures to involve more women in politics. This study attempts to establish a relationship of Sweden to the European Union that would decrease gender inequality through the use of the measures taken during the Swedish experience