Establishment of newly arrived women

The plan requires that discrimination and racism in the labor market are stopped, states that employees with foreign background are overrepresented in insecure and low-paid jobs, and describes class society as ethnicized. It furthermore wants rights to be tied to individuals instead of families, which is precisely what the requirement for equal requirements and payment to both parties means.

• stop labor market discriminationdecisive»Diskrimineringen och rasismen på arbetsmarknaden måste stoppas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Discrimination and racism in the labor market must be stopped.”
• individual rights»rättigheter kopplade till individer istället för familjer« (party programme ↗)“rights tied to individuals instead of families”
• foreign-born vulnerability»Anställda med utländsk bakgrund är överrepresenterade i osäkra, lågbetalda och stressiga jobb.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Employees with foreign background are overrepresented in insecure, low-paid, and stressful jobs.”
• ethnicized class society»Det svenska klassamhället håller på att etnifieras.« (party programme ↗)“Swedish class society is in the process of becoming ethnicized.”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The election manifesto explicitly establishes that more measures are required for foreign-born women to enter the labour market and rejects everything that locks them in the home. The counter-proposal's demands for additional measures and for authorities to set the same requirements for women and men follow directly from this and from the plan's requirement for activity in subsistence allowance. The plan is moreover explicitly feminist.

• more measures for foreign-born womendecisive»Fler insatser krävs för att utlandsfödda kvinnor ska komma i arbete och vi säger nej till alla förslag om vårdnadsbidrag eller barnomsorgspeng, som låser fast utlandsfödda kvinnor i hemmet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“More measures are required for foreign-born women to enter the labour market and we say no to all proposals for care allowances or childcare allowances, which lock foreign-born women in the home.”
• work requirement regardless of birthplace»Alla som kan jobba ska jobba och bidra för att bli en del av samhället. Det gäller oavsett var man är född.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Everyone who can work should work and contribute to becoming part of society. This applies regardless of where one was born.”
• requirement for activity»För att ingen ska fastna i passivitet behöver det ställas krav på aktivitet för att få försörjningsstöd.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“For no one to become stuck in passivity, there must be requirements for activity to receive subsistence allowance.”
• feminist politics»Med denna grundsyn är socialdemokratin ett feministiskt parti.« (party programme ↗)“With this basic view, social democracy is a feminist party.”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The election manifesto wants to explicitly strengthen foreign-born women's establishment through SFI combined with practical training and vocational education and equal efforts from the employment service, and extend the establishment programme. The party programme is a feminist programme that requires structural discrimination to cease. The counter-proposal's requirements for additional measures and the same requirements for women as for men are the same in substance.

• equal establishment effortsdecisive»stärk utrikesfödda kvinnors etablering genom SFI kombinerad med praktik och yrkesutbildning och jämställda insatser från arbetsförmedlingen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“strengthen foreign-born women's establishment through SFI combined with practical training and vocational education and equal efforts from the employment service.”
• extended establishment»förlänga etableringsprogrammet för nyanlända till minst fyra år för att skapa bättre förutsättningar för etablering, så att fler kommer i arbete snabbare.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“extend the establishment programme for newly arrived to at least four years to create better conditions for establishment, so that more come into work faster.”
• feminist basic stance»Miljöpartiet de gröna är ett feministiskt parti« (party programme ↗)“The Green Party is a feminist party”
• Swedish language instruction for all»Alla som behöver ska erbjudas en högkvalitativ« (party programme ↗)“Everyone who needs should be offered high-quality”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The plan explicitly requires that more foreign-born women get a chance to work, learn Swedish and come into society, and that integration measures are characterised by hard work and high expectations on everyone. The counter-proposal's demand for further measures, the same demands on women as on men and benefits paid to both parties is a direct application of this. The plan also links women's work to whole society's gain.

• foreign-born women's establishmentdecisive»Fler utrikes födda kvinnor måste få en chans att jobba, lära sig svenska och till fullo komma in i det svenska samhället. Det är en vinst både för den enskilda och samhället i stort.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“More foreign-born women must get a chance to work, learn Swedish and fully come into Swedish society. This is a gain both for the individual and society as a whole.”
• high expectations in integration»Integrationsinsatser ska präglas av hårt arbete och höga förväntningar.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Integration measures shall be characterised by hard work and high expectations.”
• intensive year for integration»Skapa ett intensivår för snabbare integration. Den som får uppehållstillstånd ska snabbt integreras och ges möjlighet att försörja sig själv.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Create an intensive year for faster integration. Those who receive residence permits should quickly be integrated and given opportunity to provide for themselves.”
• women's labour force participation»Sverige blir rikare och ett bättre land att leva i när fler kvinnor jobbar och inte hindras från att nå sin fulla potential.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Sweden becomes richer and a better place to live when more women work and are not hindered from reaching their full potential.”

The plan explicitly requires that authorities be clearer in the expectation that everyone who can shall support themselves and that the same expectations shall apply to both women and men, including foreign-born. It also wants more individualised maintenance support, which is precisely the requirement that support be paid out to both parties. The counter-proposal's requirement for further action for newly-arrived women's establishment therefore follows directly from the plan.

• same expectations from authoritiesdecisive»Arbetsförmedlingen, Försäkringskassan och socialtjänsten ska bli bättre i sitt stöd men också tydligare i förväntningen på att alla som kan ska försörja sig själva.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The employment agency, the social insurance agency and the social services shall improve their support but also be clearer in the expectation that everyone who can shall support themselves.”
• individualised maintenance support»Fler utrikes födda kvinnor ska komma i arbete genom reformer av föräldraförsäkringen och flerbarnstillägget och ett mer individualiserat försörjningsstöd.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“More foreign-born women shall come into employment through reforms of parental insurance and multi-child allowances and more individualised maintenance support.”
• same expectations for both genders»VI ska ha samma förväntningar på att kvinnor och män ska kunna försörja sig själv – även bland utrikes födda.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“WE shall have the same expectations that women and men shall be able to support themselves – including those foreign-born.”
• foreign-born women's exclusion»Allra längst från arbetsmarknaden står utrikes födda kvinnor.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Furthest from the labour market stand foreign-born women.”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The party programme requires that the equality perspective permeates all policy areas and points out employment and knowledge of the Swedish language as keys to integration, with requirements that people's willingness to self-support is utilized. That authorities place the same demands on women and men in establishment follows directly from this. The plan thus supports further targeted measures.

• equality in all policydecisive»Jämställdhetsperspektivet ska genomsyra alla politikområden.« (party programme ↗)“The equality perspective shall permeate all policy areas.”
• employment and Swedish as keys»Jobb, kunskap i svenska språket och det civila samhället är viktiga nycklar till integration.« (party programme ↗)“Employment, knowledge of the Swedish language and civil society are important keys to integration.”
• self-support to be utilized»Människors vilja och förmåga till egenförsörjning ska tas tillvara.« (party programme ↗)“People's willingness and ability for self-support shall be utilized.”
• improved integration»FÖRBÄTTRAD INTEGRATION« (2022 manifesto ↗)“IMPROVED INTEGRATION”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan takes up exactly what the counter-proposal requires: it states that women from the major asylum countries have very little income from their own work and requires full-time activity for benefits as well as that maintenance support is paid to the woman instead of to the man. The starting point is that increased self-sufficiency gives increased empowerment. Therefore the plan supports the requirement for further measures with the same requirements for women as for men and payment to both parties.

• payment to the womandecisive»Betala ut försörjningsstöd till kvinnan i stället för till mannen« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Pay maintenance support to the woman instead of to the man”
• same requirements for all»Ställa krav på heltidsaktiviteter för att få bidrag« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Require full-time activities to receive benefits”
• foreign-born women's exclusion(2022 manifesto)
• self-sufficiency gives empowerment»Ökad självförsörjning ger ökad egenmakt.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Increased self-sufficiency gives increased empowerment.”

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The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The plan states that benefit systems that lock women to the home should be countered and that integration policy should be demand-based with a swift path to work. The counter-proposal's requirement that authorities make the same demands on women as on men and that benefits are paid to both parties is thus a direct application of the plan's commitments. The plan is silent on the committee's reasoning that ongoing government assignments already suffice.

• break benefit dependency among womendecisive»Både kulturella normer och bidragssystem som tenderar att låsa kvinnor till hemmet ska motverkas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Both cultural norms and benefit systems that tend to lock women to the home should be countered.”
• demand-based integration»Integrationspolitiken ska sporra nyanlända att snabbt komma i utbildning och arbete, motverka passivisering och minska bidragsberoendet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Integration policy should encourage newcomers to quickly enter education and work, counteract passivization and reduce benefit dependency.”
• demands for employability»Öka kraven på icke integrerade att göra sig anställningsbara« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Increase demands on the non-integrated to make themselves employable”
• no special treatment because of gender»Motverka diskriminering och särbehandling p.g.a. kön« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Counter discrimination and special treatment because of gender”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.