Gender statistics, quarter 1 2025
Women still work more part-time than men
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2025-03-26 8.00
Women and men still have different opportunities and conditions when it comes to paid work, which in turn affect their economic independence throughout life. This is shown in todays publication of gender equality statistics based on statistics from the Swedish labour force survey.
The second Swedish gender equality policy sub-goal is women and men must have the same opportunities and conditions for paid work that provide economic independence throughout life. Indicators published today based on the Swedish labour force survey shows, among other things, that 80 percent of employed women and 90 percent of employed men work full time. It also shows that mothers’ and fathers’ working hours are affected differently. Most employed men with children living at home work full-time, regardless of the age of the children or how many children they have. Already at one child, a larger proportion of women compared to that of men works part time. Among women with children, the number of hours spent on payed work varies with the number of children and how old the children are.
Proportion (%) of everyone in age group
| Women | Men | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part-time | Full- time | Part-time | Full-time | |
| 0 years | 15 | 85 | .. | 95 |
| 1-2 years | 29 | 71 | 8 | 92 |
| 3-5 years | 27 | 73 | 8 | 92 |
| 6-10 years | 20 | 80 | 8 | 92 |
| 11-16 years | 18 | 82 | 4 | 96 |
| 2 children | ||||
| 0 years | 18 | 82 | .. | 94 |
| 1-2 years | 32 | 68 | 10 | 90 |
| 3-5 years | 32 | 68 | 8 | 93 |
| 6-10 years | 23 | 78 | 7 | 93 |
| 11-16 years | 19 | 81 | 4 | 96 |
| 3 or more children | ||||
| 0 years | .. | 79 | .. | 86 |
| 1-2 years | 37 | 63 | 13 | 87 |
| 3-5 years | 30 | 71 | .. | 93 |
| 6-10 years | 27 | 73 | .. | 95 |
| 11-16 years | .. | 79 | .. | 92 |
Definitions and explanations
Indicators on gender equality
Statistics Sweden publishes indicators for follow-ups of the six Swedish gender equality policy sub-goals. Gender statistics shows the situation for women and men, girls and boys in a variety of areas. Indicators are published four times a year and the statistics are derived from multiple sources.
Read more about gender statistics: Statistik om jämställdhet (in Swedish).
Labour force surveys (LFS)
LFS is a survey that is used in gender statistics as a source for some of the indicators for the second Swedish gender equality policy sub-goal on economic gender equality.
Since the LFS is a sample survey the results come with some uncertainty. The uncertainty figures are published in the statistical database (SSD) Statistical database - Select table.
Estimates based on less than 40 observations on a yearly basis, are not published and replaced with [..].
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