Study On Gender Equality Policy From The Perspective Of Social Policy In Sweden

Social equality is the cornerstone of the Swedish welfare state.Social equality is not only the equal distribution of social goods,more importantly,it is equal status and identity among people,it is profoundly embodied in gender equality.Sweden is internationally recognized as one of the societies with the highest gender equality.Swedish social policy and the policy of gender equality have the consistency of value objectives,and their common characteristics are the pursuit of equality of social rights,compatibility with policy content,openness of policy development,coerciveness of policy effects.The essences of the Swedish social policy are the government intervening on various social issues through policy act,implementing of government-led secondary distribution,achieving the purpose of social justice,possessing the universal characteristics of state coordinations.Sweden gender equality policy derives from its population policy and family policy of 1930 s,gradually forms an independent system in the 1970 s.The evolution of Swedish gender equality policy is not a linear and simple development process from inequality to equality,but a complex process of policy changing and development of different conflicts of interest,constantly solving the prominent social problems,changing policy goals,expanding policy areas,constant ly out of policy paradox.This process is closely linked with Sweden's political,economic and social development,the rise of feminist thoughts,the change of gender equality ideology.The value system of Sweden's gender equality policy is the soul of Swedish gender equality policy.By setting general goal value,it forms four specific value areas,establishes the content structure of gender equality policies in Sweden.The general goal of Sweden gender equality policy is: "to ensure that women and men enjoy the same opportunity in all aspects of life,have the same rights and bear the same obligations".Under the general goals,Sweden's content system of gender equality policy is established,in which main contents are the equal political participation rights,rights of equal opportunity in the field of economic and education,equal rights of family roles,woman's own security rights.The gender mainstreaming implemented by Swedish government opens the new perspectives and new fields for various social policy formulations and implementations.As a priority strategy,social gender mainstreaming incorporates gender equality as the goal of social policies,brings the women and gender equality issues which had always been at the edge status into center stage of government policy,develops the policy of gender equality field.The implementation process of Sweden's social gender mainstreaming is the process of constant development of gender equality policy in Sweden,and it is also constantly improving institutionalization and systematic process of Swedish gender equality policy.The process shows the changes of the concept of gender equality policy from the pursuit of the equal status of women in the family to the pursuit of gender neutrality as an independent individual,and then the pursuit of the two genders' equal rights,brings the women's issues and gender equality issues previously on the margins to the centre of the government's policy stage.to pursue the equal rights of the two genders;the goal of gender equality policy changes from focus on female characters to neutral equal relationship between men and women,and further the changes of male responsibility;the scope of Swedish gender equality policy expanding from family to the Labor market,then to various social policy areas.The paper studies the gender equality issues of Swedish social policy,namely the Sweden's gender equality policy research in five aspects.:First of all,from the macroscopic level,in the second chapter of this paper,social policy,Sweden's social policy,policy of gender equality in Sweden,the evolution of basic concept and the connotation of the concept are analyzed;In order to explore and solve the Swedish social policy formation's social conditions and theoretical resource problems,the social basis of the formation of the Swedish social policy and theoretical basis are interpreted.Secondly,from the diachronic level,in the third chapter and the fifth chapter,the formation,introduction,reform and evolution of Swedish gender equality are systemically analyzed through a lot of firsthand material mining and combing;the construction process of Sweden's gender equality policy system is also analyzed;the formation and overcoming process of gender equality policy paradox in Sweden is discussed;policy principle,policy goal,policy content and policy system's changing and reforming process of Sweden gender equality policy are studied;The raising,implementation,effects,implications and limitations of Swedish social gender mainstreaming strategy are systematically discussed.Thirdly,from the synchronic level,in the fourth chapter,Sweden's gender equality policy goal value system,content structure and the effect of the policy implementation are studied.Based on the general goals and sub-goals of gender equality policy determined by Sweden gender equality act,the four parts policy and its practical effect of Sweden gender equality policy are systematical analyzed.Fourthly,from the quantitative analysis level,In the sixth chapter,with the quantitative analysis method,on the basis of a large number of objective data,statistical modeling method is also used to prove the validity of the Sweden gender equality policy,the differences between European countries and various areas of the world's gender equality are analyzed by using clustering analysis and variance analysis.Fifthly,from the aspect of summarizing and learning,in the seventh chapter,with the above analyses and interpretations of Sweden's gender equal ity policy,the paper sums up the experience of Sweden's gender equality policy,combining with China's current national conditions;besides,the paper analyzes the experience and enlightenment provided by the gender equality policy,in four aspects: the employment policy,family policy,women's political participation and gender mainstreaming.