Malmö startup incubator Minc is committed to getting more women into the city's startup world. The Local went to its Nordic Female Investor Meetup to find out how.
Trends in men's hairstyle have evolved immensely since eccentric rock 'n' roll mullets and braids in the 70s to clean crew, slicked back cuts in modern day. What's next for Swedish men?
You can shop the look at cool Scandinavian fashion stores, or stick around long enough to get your own residency permit. But to really become a Swedish man, The Local reckons you've got to share these nine experiences.
Working mothers may have to juggle more tasks than their husbands, but the long-held belief that women are better than men at multi-tasking is a myth, according to new Swedish research.
Stockholm men are the best looking in the world, according to a new ranking, taking home the number one spot in a category Swedes have dominated in the past.
Centuries of female dominance in population statistics will be broken within the next four years. In 2015 the surplus of women in Sweden will be turned to a male surplus.
Many firefighters fear that letting women into the profession will undermine the camaraderie necessary to do a god job in a work environment full of risk, a new study from the University of Gothenburg shows.
Ladies Night, a popular cabaret show which has just celebrated its fifth year in Sweden, has been reported to the Discrimination Ombudsman (Diskriminerings ombudsman - DO) by a man denied tickets on the grounds of his gender.
Researchers in Sweden studying personal ads have found more evidence to support the old cliche that men like younger women, and women prefer older men.
One in five female managers in Sweden has been harassed on account of her gender, while only three percent of male managers have suffered the same treatment.
Men from Stockholm flee the roost later than men or women in any other part of the country, according to a new report presented by Statistics Sweden. Young males in the capital wait until they are almost 23 before finding their own home, while their counterparts from the countryside and small towns take the plunge at the tender age of 21.
Lately, I've noticed, I've become a lot scruffier. I shave less regularly than I used to. I've more or less stopped buying clothes. And at least twice a week I leave home without doing my flies up.
<i>(AFP)</i> Men who have prostate cancer detected early on and undergo surgery to remove the prostate gland increase their chances of survival, a pioneering Swedish study published on Thursday showed.
You wait weeks for a new report to pull the rug out from under a worn-out old stereotype and then three come along at once. Apparently 'frugal Swedes' are lousy savers, 'sexy Swedes' are all single, and the typical transvestite is a grey-haired married chap with children.
It's a rich man's world, as Agnetha and Anni-Frid so eloquently put it, and anyone on the hunt for a nice millionaire could do worse than come to Sweden. But once they've found him, they would be well advised to teach him how to spend it.
It would appear that Swedish fathers don't know how lucky they are with the generous paternity provisions available to them. According to Sunday's DN, the Social Services Department is about to publish a report claiming that fathers are turning down dozens of days off with their babies and young children under the parental leave system.
If you are dissatisfied with your stomach, think there's too much talk about equality these days, and want to have sex more often, you're probably a Swedish man.
