The Local’s Sophie Miskiw sits down with Armina Etminan, education manager at Make Equal, a Stockholm based-company that has reached over 100 million people with its campaigns to help organisations and businesses engage practically with equality.

Armina introduces the concept of norm creativity and explains how it can be used to create more inclusive external communications. Norms, she explains, are limiting and exclude people. By identifying these norms, companies can create new ways to engage with and include people both within and outside of the organisation.

Read more about everything discussed in the podcast by clicking the links below:

• A Woman's Place
• A Woman's Place podcast
• Make Equal
• Norm creativity
• Leklust’s pram-pushing Spiderman

The original music at the start and end of the podcast is called Lions and was composed by the all-female Stockholm-based band REIGN. Check them out on Instagram.

A Woman's Place is produced by The Local in partnership with Invest Stockholm.

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"Recruitment is one of the most important tools to reach diversity within your workplace."

The Local’s Sophie Miskiw is joined by Henrik Fröjmark, Managing Director of Rättviseförmedlingen, a Swedish fundraising foundation focused on promoting equality and diversity. Based in Stockholm, the initiative helps different projects, organisations and media companies to find candidates from underrepresented areas with relevant knowledge and experience.

Henrik discusses the most common mistakes companies make during the recruitment process and what they can do to avoid them. After all, he says, “if you only recruit from half the population you will miss out on a lot of talent."

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Read more about everything discussed in the podcast by clicking the links below.

• A Woman's Place
• A Woman's Place podcast
• Rättviseförmedlingen
• Diversity

The original music at the start and end of the podcast is called Lions and was composed by the all-female Stockholm-based band REIGN. Check them out on Instagram.

A Woman's Place is produced by The Local in partnership with Invest Stockholm.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"How can we in a specific situation make people feel at home, welcome, talk to each other in a more fair way, not stereotyping or excluding?”

The Local's Sophie Miskiw is joined by Pernilla Alexandersson, CEO and founder of Add Gender, a Stockholm-based consultancy service committed to improving equality and diversity in the workplace.

Pernilla discusses the steps companies can take to start measuring how equal their workplaces are as well as the benefits that result from more diverse organisations. She highlights the most common issues companies face of their quest for diversity and how to overcome them and increase inclusivity.

Read more about everything discussed in the podcast by clicking the links below:

• A Woman's Place
• A Woman's Place podcast
• Add Gender
• EQmeter
• Inclusiveness

The original music at the start and end of the podcast is called Lions and was composed by the all-female Stockholm-based band REIGN. Check them out on Instagram.

A Woman's Place is produced by The Local in partnership with Invest Stockholm.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the second episode of A Woman's Place season two, The Local’s Sophie Miskiw sits down with Johanna Lundin, CEO and founder of Equalate, a Stockholm-based consultancy service dedicated to developing equality, diversity and inclusion within organisations.

Johanna explains why all businesses should have a gender equality policy and, more importantly, how to bring it to life. She offers solutions that help companies to get a full picture of gender equality in their workplaces and practical steps they can take to make all employees feel safe, valued and able to succeed.

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Read more about everything discussed in the podcast by clicking the links below:

• A Woman's Place
• Equalate
• Gender equality policy, Sweden

The original music at the start and end of the podcast is called Lions and was composed by the all-female Stockholm-based band REIGN. Check them out on Instagram.

A Woman's Place is produced by The Local in partnership with Invest Stockholm.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Most of the organisations we at AllBright meet want to talk about, 'How do we find, hire and keep women?'. And they don't see how the recruitment process or promotion process is biased."

Season two of A Woman's Place kicks off with The Local's Sophie Miskiw meeting Jennifer Råsten, training strategist at AllBright Foundation, a politically-independent, non-profit foundation that promotes equality and diversity on the management level in Sweden.

Jennifer regularly meets with companies that want to increase female representation on their leadership teams, many of them unaware that the issue is more deeply rooted than they realised. She highlights the many benefits of diverse management teams and offers advice to companies that are keen to get more women into leadership positions.

Read more about everything discussed in the podcast by clicking the links below:

• A Woman's Place
• AllBright Foundation
• Meritocracy
• Deloitte study 'Inclusive Mobility: How mobilizing a diverse workforce can drive business performance'
• McKinsey study 'Women Matter: Ten years of insights on gender diversity'
• 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' by Daniel Kahneman

The original music at the start and end of the podcast is called Lions and was composed by the all-female Stockholm-based band REIGN. Check them out on Instagram.

A Woman's Place is produced by The Local in partnership with Invest Stockholm.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'People think 'social robots' will steal all our jobs. I get lots of disaster questions like, 'When will robots take over the world?''

For Jana Tumova and Iolanda Leite, a woman's place is in the lab. Both of the assistant professors moved to Stockholm to work in the Department of Robotics at the esteemed KTH Royal Institute of Technology, exploring the many possibilities of robots.

From helping the elderly to live independently to the humble vacuum cleaner, robots are predicted to play an increasingly significant role in the future. And Jana and Iolanda are two women shaping that future.

Unfortunately, the STEM sciences are still heavily male dominated, an issue the women in KTH's Department of Robotics are trying to change. For two years, Jana and Iolanda have been involved in an initiative aimed at encouraging more women to apply to KTH. It's working, they add, describing it as 'magical' when just one young person changes their mind and decides to pursue STEM studies.

And in case you're wondering: No, say Jana and Iolanda, robots are not going to take over the world anytime soon.

Read more about everything Jana and Iolanda discuss by clicking the links below:

• A Woman's Place
• The future needs Giants
• KTH Department of Robotics
• Social robotics
• Gender gap in STEM sciences

The original music at the start and end of the podcast is called Lions and was composed by the all-female Stockholm-based band REIGN. Check them out on Instagram.

A Woman's Place is produced by The Local in partnership with Invest Stockholm.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Isn't it time that we try women in decision making and trying to make peace? Because men have really failed."

Sweden's Minister of Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström is no ordinary politician. Throughout her 30+ year career, she has served as the United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict; European Commissioner for the Environment; and as Sweden's own Deputy Prime Minister.

She's also the woman responsible for Sweden's world-famous 'feminist foreign policy' which places gender equality at the core of Swedish foreign policy.

In this episode of A Woman's Place, host Samanda Ekman hands over to The Local's Commercial Editor Sophie Miskiw who joined Margot at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Stockholm. The pair got down to the nitty gritty of what it means to have a 'feminist foreign policy', what women can do if they experience abuse, and whether Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Löfven is guilty of 'mansplaining'.

Read more about everything Margot and Sophie discuss by clicking the links below:

• A Woman's Place
• Sweden's feminist foreign policy
• The Stockholm Forum on Gender Equality
• Sweden gives a copy of We Should All Be Feminists to every 16-year-old
• Domestic violence and abuse
• United Nations
• European Commission
• #MeToo movement

The wonderful music at the start and end of the podcast is called Lions and was composed by the all-female Stockholm-based band REIGN. Check them out on Instagram.

A Woman's Place is produced by The Local in partnership with Invest Stockholm.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.