Gender equality

The County Administrative Board supports regional actors in equality matters. We work to make the whole county equal.

Gender equality means that girls and boys, women and men have the same opportunities to form the society and their own lives. Gender equality is created where decisions are made, resources are allocated, and standards are set. Therefore, perspectives on gender equality must be included in all daily work operations in municipalities, authorities, businesses, associations, and other organisations. Gender equality is a clear political goal in Sweden and public actors must work towards reaching the gender equality goals.

An equal county

The County Administrative Board are tasked, among other things, with:

• support the work with equality integration in state authorities at regional and local level
• coordinate, support and follow up the regional work to achieve the gender equality policy goals
• work for the impact of the gender equality policy goals in the county
• integrate an equality perspective into the activities of the County Administrative Board.

We also have an assignment to support regional actors in their efforts to make their operations equal. Gender mainstreaming is the main strategy used to meet the objectives. This strategy has evolved to counteract the tendency for equality issues to be obscured, or pushed aside, in daily operations and activities.

Regional conditions are to set the baseline for the gender mainstreaming strategies. It is also of importance that the strategies are based on an analysis of how different orders of power and basis of discrimination affect and enhance each other – a so-called intersectional analysis.