Reserved Days

The party programme points out an individualized parental insurance as a strategically important reform to increase gender equality both in family life and in the labor market, and establishes that social insurance must be individual and tied to individuals instead of to families. The counter-proposal requires the exact opposite: that the reserved days are abolished and families themselves distribute the days freely. The plan therefore speaks against the counter-proposal's requirements.

• individualized parental insurancedecisive»individualiserad föräldraförsäkring och en stärkt lagfäst rätt till heltid,« (party programme ↗)“individualized parental insurance and a strengthened statutory right to full-time,”
• individual social insurance»Socialförsäkringarna ska vara individuella och ge människor en inkomstrelaterad ersättning vid sjukdom, arbetslöshet, föräldraledighet,« (party programme ↗)“Social insurance must be individual and provide people with income-related benefits for sickness, unemployment, parental leave,”
• rights tied to individuals»rättigheter kopplade till individer istället för familjer eller arbetsplatser« (party programme ↗)“rights tied to individuals instead of families or workplaces”
• equal distribution of household work»En arbetstidsförkortning skulle vara ett viktigt steg för ökad jämställdhet eftersom det också skulle möjliggöra för en mer jämställd fördelning av det obetalda hemarbetet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Reduced working hours would be an important step toward increased gender equality because it would also enable a more equal distribution of unpaid household work.”

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's requirement is that women and men should be able to take equal responsibility for home, family and children and equally share unpaid household work, with parental insurance that provides equal opportunities; the party is explicitly feminist. The election manifesto highlights parental insurance as an equality reform and says no to proposals that lock women in the home. Abolishing the reserved days would undermine this, which is why the plan rejects the demand.

• equally shared parental responsibilitydecisive»måste få möjlighet att ta lika ansvar för hem, familj och barn och att jämnt fördela det« (party programme ↗)“must have opportunity to take equal responsibility for home, family and children and equally distribute the”
• parental insurance as equality reform»I Sverige har viktiga jämställdhetsreformer som förskola och föräldraförsäkring möjliggjort kvinnors självständighet och frihet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“In Sweden, important gender equality reforms such as preschool and parental insurance have enabled women's independence and freedom.”
• no to reforms that lock women in the home»vi säger nej till alla förslag om vårdnadsbidrag eller barnomsorgspeng, som låser fast utlandsfödda kvinnor i hemmet« (2022 manifesto ↗)“we say no to all proposals for care allowances or childcare allowances, which lock foreign-born women in the home”
• feminist party»Med denna grundsyn är socialdemokratin ett feministiskt parti.« (party programme ↗)“With this basic view, social democracy is a feminist party.”

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 election manifesto requires that each parent must take out at least one-third of the parental days and that the fathers' take-up is doubled; the party programme advocates a three-part insurance with earmarked days. Abolishing the reserved days and letting families distribute freely is the direct opposite of that commitment. The plan justifies the earmarking by saying that increased take-up by men strengthens women's position on the labour market.

• earmarked parental daysdecisive»dubblera pappornas uttag av föräldraledighet — varje förälder ska ta ut minst en tredjedel av föräldradagarna.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“double the fathers' take-up of parental leave — each parent must take out at least one-third of the parental days.”
• three-part parental insurance»En tredelad föräldraförsäkring, där en tredjedel av dagarna öronmärks för respektive vårdnadshavare och resten kan fördelas fritt, är ett sätt att bryta med gamla mönster« (party programme ↗)“A three-part parental insurance, where one-third of the days are earmarked for each guardian and the rest can be distributed freely, is a way to break with old patterns”
• women's position on the labour market»När mäns uttag av föräldraledigheten ökar stärks dessutom kvinnors position på arbetsmarknaden.« (party programme ↗)“When men's take-up of parental leave increases, women's position on the labour market is also strengthened.”
• shared responsibility for children and home»Vi vill se ett samhälle där ägandet är jämnt fördelat mellan män och kvinnor, precis som ansvaret för barn och hem.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to see a society where ownership is evenly distributed between men and women, just as the responsibility for children and home.”

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 modernise parental insurance so that it becomes more equal and more women can enter work and pursue careers, and establishes that parenthood must not be an economic trap for women. Abolishing the reserved days and leaving the entire division to the family would, according to the plan's own problem description, reinforce the unequal division. The party programme's writing on the best interests of family and children points in the opposite direction, but the election manifesto's gender equality line carries most weight.

• more equal parental insurancedecisive»Vi vill modernisera föräldraförsäkringen så att fler kvinnor kan komma i arbete och göra karriär, bland annat genom att införa en kraftigt förstärkt jämställdhetsbonus.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to modernise parental insurance so that more women can enter work and pursue careers, partly through introducing a significantly strengthened gender equality bonus.”
• parenthood must not penalise women»Att föda barn ska inte stå i vägen för karriären och föräldraskap ska inte vara en ekonomisk fälla för kvinnor.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Having children must not stand in the way of careers and parenthood must not be an economic trap for women.”
• feminist fundamental stance»Centerpartiet är ett feministiskt parti, som utmanar och bryter rådande maktförhållanden och kollektiva orättvisor.« (party programme ↗)“The Centre Party is a feminist party that challenges and breaks down prevailing power relations and collective injustices.”
• the family's own choice»Föräldraförsäkringen ska utformas efter familjens och barnens bästa.« (party programme ↗)“Parental insurance shall be designed according to the best interests of family and children.”

The party programme explicitly establishes that three months shall be reserved for each custodian. The counter-proposal requires that the reserved days be abolished entirely, which is the direct opposite. The plan certainly wants to increase choice in parental insurance, but only within a model that at the same time strengthens gender equality in the labour market and is built on shared responsibility for home and children.

• reserved monthsdecisive»Tre månader ska vara öronmärkta åt varje vårdnadshavare.« (party programme ↗)“Three months shall be reserved for each custodian.”
• choice with gender equality»Vi vill se ny föräldraförsäkring som både värnar valfriheten och stärker jämställdheten på arbetsmarknaden.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to see new parental insurance that both values choice and strengthens gender equality in the labour market.”
• shared parental responsibility»Jämställdhet förutsätter delat ansvar för hem och barn.« (party programme ↗)“Gender equality requires shared responsibility for home and children.”
• expanded transfer rights»familjer ser olika ut ska rätten att överlåta dagar till tredje person ökas.« (party programme ↗)“families look different the right to transfer days to a third party shall be increased.”

The plan establishes that the state shall not go in and decide in the family's stead and that support to families with children shall be organized so that it can be used flexibly, with the children's and families' needs as starting point. Reserved days lock instead a part of parental insurance to a state-determined distribution. Equality between parents shall according to the plan be driven with opinion-forming work, not through control of use. The plan thus supports the demand to abolish the reserved days.

• family freedom from state controldecisive»eller staten inte ska gå in och bestämma i familjens ställe.« (party programme ↗)“or the state shall not go in and decide in the family's stead.”
• flexible support to families with children»måste samhällets stöd till barnfamiljer vara organiserat så att det kan användas på ett flexibelt sätt.« (party programme ↗)“must society's support to families with children be organized so that it can be used flexibly.”
• the family's needs drive family policy»Barnens och familjernas behov är utgångspunkten« (party programme ↗)“The children's and families' needs are the starting point”
• shared responsibility through opinion-forming»med opinionsbildande arbete stimulera föräldrar att« (party programme ↗)“use opinion-forming work to encourage parents to”

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 election manifesto commits to increasing flexibility in parental insurance, and the party programme states that equality is achieved through strengthened self-determination and empowerment, not through requirements for exact outcomes. Allowing the family to itself dispose of the days follows that line. The plan at the same time wants to prevent women from becoming trapped at home, which pulls in the other direction, but the explicit commitment in the election manifesto concerns increased flexibility.

• increased flexibility in parental insurancedecisive»• Öka flexibiliteten i föräldraförsäkringen och göra fler dagar till dubbeldagar« (2022 manifesto ↗)“• Increase flexibility in parental insurance and make more days dual days”
• equality through self-determination»Vägen till ökad jämställdhet handlar om att stärka självbestämmandet och möjligheterna till egenmakt.« (party programme ↗)“The path to increased equality is about strengthening self-determination and opportunities for empowerment.”
• right to choose»Rätten att välja väg tillhör alla.« (party programme ↗)“The right to choose a path belongs to everyone.”
• women's employment»• Avskaffa flerbarnstillägget från och med barn fyra så att inte kvinnor i stora familjer fastnar i hemmet« (2022 manifesto ↗)“• Abolish the multi-child supplement from child four onwards so that women in large families do not get trapped at home”

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 explicitly states that parental insurance should be flexible and family-friendly and that reserved months should be removed, and that family policy should move away from coercive reforms that limit families' scope for action. The counter-proposal's demand to abolish the reserved days and let families themselves have control of the insurance is precisely this commitment. The plan therefore supports the demand.

• abolish reserved monthsdecisive»Föräldraförsäkringen ska vara flexibel och familjevänlig och reserverade månader ska bort.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Parental insurance should be flexible and family-friendly and reserved months should be removed.”
• flexible parental insurance»Skapa en flexibel och familjevänlig föräldraförsäkring« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Create a flexible and family-friendly parental insurance”
• away with coercive reforms»Den ekonomiska familjepolitiken behöver ändra kurs från tvingande reformer som begränsar handlingsutrymme och välmående, till en mer familjefrämjande attityd där fokus ligger på att organisera arbetslivet kring familjens och barnens behov snarare än efter politikernas egna önskemål.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Economic family policy needs to change course from coercive reforms that limit scope for action and well-being, to a more family-promoting attitude where focus lies on organizing working life around the family's and children's needs rather than politicians' own wishes.”
• family's self-determination»Familjer ska vara fria att fatta egna beslut om sin vardag där barn ska ha tillgång till båda sina föräldrar och förhållandena vara goda.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Families should be free to make their own decisions about their daily life where children should have access to both parents and conditions should be good.”