Equality minister Åsa Regnér at a press conference detailing the agency. The need to create a central gender equality authority was a key conclusion made by a study set up by the previous centre-right Alliance government, which was delivered last autumn. “We are still in the midst of inequality because we don’t have a national grip of and control over gender equality policy,” Social Democrat equality minister Åsa Regnér said at a media conference on Thursday. Earlier in September, Sweden achieved a long-term gender equality target dating back to the 1980s, with a woman now making up half of the members of boardrooms at government bodies. READ ALSO: Åsa Regnér on why the Swedish government is introducing a new strategy on male violence against women

Source: The Local September 15, 2016 14:48 UTC