Gender equality work inreal estate companies : A qualitative study of managers' gender equality work inreal estate companies

In Sweden, it has been noticed and important to work with gender equality for 50years. Gender equality work is important to continue to pay attention to and activelywork with within companies as it is still not equal between women and men. It isimportant that managers prioritize gender equality work because they have a decisiveposition in the extent to which the work is carried out. The purpose of the study wasto describe how managers in real estate companies work to promote gender equality.The empirics have been collected through a qualitative method in the form of semistructuredinterviews with six managers in real estate companies. The interview guidewas designed to be able to answer the study's purpose and questions. The interviewswere conducted with a respondent from each company, the collected data was thentranscribed. The results indicate that the interviewed managers do not carry out genderequality work to the extent that is considered necessary. The conclusion is thatmanagers in real estate companies work to varying degrees to promote gender equality,however, the most important factors were stated to be to create a mix of gender inwork groups and equal pay for equal work