Gang criminals in Malmö have expressed their shock at this week's shooting of a 31-year-old woman, complaining that "women and children have always been taboo".
From historical figures to contemporary icons, Swedish women have broken boundaries around the globe. Here is The Local's list of 13 of Sweden's most inspiring women whose stories deserve to be widely known.
A workshop for women interested in coding at the Malmö offices of games developer King has sold out in just 20 minutes, showing the growing female interest in the traditionally male profession.
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.
Sweden was ranked the best place in the world for women in a survey published on International Women's Day. We asked foreigners how they feel their lives have changed since moving to Sweden.
A Swedish builders' union has been both praised and criticized after its all-male board donned 'pussy hats' and posed for a picture in support of gender equality.
Hayat Ibrahim al-Sidawi is 64 and arrived in Malmö last July. She tells The Local Voices how embroidery helped her to cope with the war, and why she had to bring her children to Sweden.
Madeleine Racutanu studied Arabic at the university of Jordan, where she also worked as an English teacher and with refugees. Now back in her native Sweden, the 27-year-old is continuing her work with refugees here. She tells The Local Voices that integration will also be of great benefit to Swedes - but that we're facing some big challenges.
Leading Swedish anti-rape campaigners have accused a UN panel of putting the rights of possible rapists above those of assaulted women in its ruling on the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Have you ever paid for yourself on a date - or yelled at a man for whistling at you on the street? Then you may be more typically Swedish than you think. We've put together a list of nine experiences that make a truly Swedish woman.
UPDATED: Swedish TV channel TV4 plans to describe the upcoming global women's football contest in Canada as the 'World Cup', as part of efforts to promote equality in the sport, but Fifa has said it will be in breach of contract unless it uses its full title the 'Fifa Women's World Cup'.
Swedes are less dependent on the state, more likely to be foreign born and less likely to have their car stolen than they were in the past. Here are ten statistics that show you the state of modern Sweden.
Despite Sweden's international reputation for gender equality, the lack of women in the country's history books is causing a stir in the Swedish media.
Domestic violence increases in the summer months in Sweden, a fresh statistics report shows, while new proposals for tackling the broader problem have been slated by a national women's group.
Female university graduates in Sweden earn only 6.5 percent more than their high school counterparts - a rate lower than any other OECD country, new statistics revealed.
The increase in women at executive level is so slow that Sweden won't have equality in the boardrooms until the year 2022, the diversity lobbyists AllBright warned on Monday.
The Local catches up with Carina Herrstedt, chair of the Sweden Democrat women's wing, to learn more about women's place in a party sometimes labelled as a bunch of "angry white men".
Sweden has the highest incidence of reported rapes in Europe - twice as many as "runner up" the UK, a new study shows. But the figures don't tell the whole story, says the professor who led the study.
