SATURDAY 22 AUGUST · STOCKHOLM · THE DAY IN 5 STORIES

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Mothers take 69% of parental leave. Women’s pensions trail SEK 7,100

Unequal leave, VAB and part-time work can keep cutting women’s income long after the small-child years are over.

A woman stands beside a baby seated in a stroller outdoors.

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A care worker in Sweden wears a red-button assault alarm on the hip.

Women are 79% of Sweden’s stress-related sick-leave cases

Power & Consequence

Graduates in black academic gowns and caps gather at a crowded ceremony in Nigeria.

How to make your foreign degree count in a Swedish application

Decision to Doorstep

Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar poses against a plain grey background in May 2018.

Dadgostar cancels summer speech after fatal Fagersta school attack

News

News & Politics

Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson poses alone for a photograph in Gothenburg in April 2026.

News

Andersson cancels campaign stop after attack

Fire-damaged trees stand in Tyresta Nature Reserve near Stockholm in a September 2013 file photograph.

News

SMHI says 15 counties face high-to-extreme forest-fire risk Sunday

People visit the Sweden Democrats' public political tent during Almedalen Week in 2023.

Politics

SD wants national staffing floor for elder care

A Scandinavian Airlines Airbus A320 parked at Oslo Airport while ground crews service the aircraft.

News

Norwegian air-traffic strike disrupts SAS flights to Sweden

Belonging

A Migrationsverket sign outside an agency building.

Belonging

Swedish citizenship grants fell 94% in July as 103,598 cases remained open

Baristas prepare coffee during a café shift. The photograph is illustrative; the workers are not identified as students, Swedish residents or residence-permit holders.

Belonging

Sweden’s new work cap threatens student residence permits

A Polish border guard checks passengers' travel documents aboard a coach at the Berastavitsa-Bobrowniki crossing in August 2018.

Belonging

Sweden’s revised guidance says Belarusians should not return for passports

Ballot papers laid out for Sweden's 2014 general election.

Belonging

Sweden’s foreign-born voters trail Swedish-born voters by 22 points

Making It

A glassworker handles glowing glass at Bergdala glassworks in Sweden.

Making It

Swedish women earn SEK 4,500 less a month as the gap stalls

Adult SFI learners work at desktop computers during a workshop in Värnamo in October 2013.

Making It

Approved SFI breaks cut the time left to finish

A care worker in blue scrubs pushes a person in a wheelchair through a clinical corridor.

Making It

Foreign-born workers made up about two-thirds of new elderly-care hires

Graduates in black academic gowns and caps gather at a crowded ceremony in Nigeria.

Making It

Most recognised foreign graduates still lacked matched work eight years later

Decision to doorstep

Life Here

A woman stands beside a baby seated in a stroller outdoors.

Life Here

Mothers take 69% of parental leave. Women’s pensions trail SEK 7,100

The Swedish Migration Agency office in Solna, seen from outside.

Life Here

New family rules could add years before Sweden starts deciding

A partial solar eclipse visible through clouds over Tuntorp in western Sweden.

Life Here

Sweden gets a partial eclipse Wednesday, but viewers need eye protection

A social worker with a red folder speaks with two adults across a table, with papers in front of them.

Life Here

How to handle a Swedish decision you cannot understand

Sweden Explained

A Swedish police car drives through Stockholm with its emergency lights activated.

Sweden Explained

Sweden debates migration and crime with evidence too weak for certainty

Pupils work at tables while a teacher helps a group in a classroom at Enskede school in Stockholm.

Sweden Explained

School support for newcomers also lifted Swedish-born pupils

A newly installed digital household electricity meter with a zero reading, photographed in Berlin in January 2025.

Sweden Explained

Sweden’s inflation fell to 0.2% as energy prices dropped

A person uses a card reader beside a laptop for an online financial transaction.

Sweden Explained

When a fully automated decision changes your future, GDPR gives you a right to understand and challenge it

Power & Consequence

A care worker in Sweden wears a red-button assault alarm on the hip.

Power & Consequence

Women are 79% of Sweden’s stress-related sick-leave cases

The red Migrationsverket name and bridge symbol displayed on a glass office wall.

Power & Consequence

Sweden raises citizenship barriers while old cases remain trapped for years

A Swedish police car drives through Stockholm with its emergency lights activated.

Power & Consequence

Sweden promises equal policing while drug stops produce ethnic disparities

A Swedish police car and police cordon outside Hälsingegatan 28 in Stockholm.

Power & Consequence

Foreign-background Swedes are more overrepresented among homicide victims than offenders

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A glassworker handles glowing glass at Bergdala glassworks in Sweden.

Household Ledger

Passengers carrying bags board a plane at Stockholm Arlanda Airport.

Household Ledger

How a Swedish job offer can help pay for your move

A white Migrationsverket flag flying outside against green trees.

Household Ledger

How lower-paid Swedish jobs can still support a work permit

Inside a Stockholm metro carriage with grey seats, yellow handrails and a display showing Thorildsplan.

Household Ledger

Stockholm's half-price travelcard can erase your tax deduction

An electronic market board displays changing share prices and percentage movements.

Household Ledger

ISK explained: Sweden's investment savings account for shares and funds

Opportunity Map

An SJ X40 regional double-decker train stands at Sundbyberg station in March 2006.

Opportunity Map

How to cut the cost of a distant Swedish job interview

The green Arbetsförmedlingen symbol and bilingual agency name on a glass-fronted building in daylight.

Opportunity Map

How a jobs-centre subsidy can strengthen your application

A professional truck driver seated inside the cab of a lorry.

Opportunity Map

The three checks before applying for Swedish truck job

Two electricians install a new main electrical distribution board at a property in central Ystad.

Opportunity Map

The filter that opens more than 200 engineering jobs across Sweden

Decision to Doorstep

Graduates in black academic gowns and caps gather at a crowded ceremony in Nigeria.

Decision to Doorstep

How to make your foreign degree count in a Swedish application

A large crowd of students at a university graduation ceremony in Ottawa.

Decision to Doorstep

How foreign graduates can keep job hunting in Sweden

The red Migrationsverket name and bridge symbol displayed on a glass office wall.

Decision to Doorstep

How to Move to Sweden Without a Job Offer

A close-up of a baggage tag marked Stockholm Arlanda and ARN.

Decision to Doorstep

How Sweden counts travel against citizenship residence

Opinion

A Swedish flag waves from a white flagpole against a clear blue sky.

DailySweden view

Power hungry divisive politicians need to heal the country

An archival portrait of Swedish Climate Minister Romina Pourmokhtari.

DailySweden view

Sweden’s ministers keep full pay while sick as the government defends the sick-day penalty

A large crowd gathers beneath a Tax the Rich banner inside the Wisconsin State Capitol in February 2011.

DailySweden view

Why wealthy interests work so hard to make everyone hate taxes

A crowd gathers at an anti-racism demonstration in Stockholm in August 2015.

DailySweden view

Exclusion builds the parallel societies Sweden claims to fear

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