Sweden: Greens propose Women's Day as holiday

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'Sweden's Green party have proposed turning the annual International Women's Day (IWD) into a public holiday and said that gender equality has gone backwards under the current government.

In an op-ed published in Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet on IWD the party's spokesperson Gustav Fridolin said it should become a red day on the calendar. The editorial was co-signed by Green party politicians Åsa Romson and Gunvor G Ericsson.

"Sweden continues to be an unequal country. On the boards of listed companies it is still more common to be called Johan than to be a woman. We still have not, unlike all the other Nordic countries, had a woman as the head of government," wrote the Green party members in the op-ed.
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The Greens also made calls for changes to the justice and education systems and for Sweden to be an example for equality in the world.
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For the Green Party's proposal to become a reality an existing public holiday would have to be scrapped from the calendar and become a regular work day. The party declined to suggest which day should be removed and replaced with International Women's Day.

"This probably means that one of the existing public holidays would become a working day," they wrote in the concluding paragraph.'