They had to have a whole televised national debate about it.
Sweden’s hardly perfect, but compared with America, it’s a haven of equality. Few countries have been more successful at institutionalizing feminist ideas at a governmental level—there’s been a minister for gender equality since 1973, and up until 2022, Sweden’s state department instituted a so-called feminist foreign policy.
This emphasis on gender parity also seems to be correlated with general happiness among parents. In the famous 2017“Parenthood and Happiness: Effects of Work-Family Reconciliation Policies in 22 OECD Countries,” social scientists Jennifer Glass, Robin W. Simon, and Matthew A. Andersson revealed that happiness decreases rapidly in the U.S.
A decent man, he said, needs to have two qualities. The first is “being present”—the simple art of showing up. For the second, he used a Swedish word that’s harder to translate: lyhörd. It’s usually translated as “responsive,” but that doesn’t cover its richness: The fuller meaning of the word is to be someone who’s intuitive and attentive to another person’s needs, whether that person is your child or your partner.
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