Men as caregivers:
1: Change the parental allowance scheme and rights in connection with childbirth
2: Strengthen the role and rights of new fathers and fellow mothers
3: Establish tripartite cooperation for better work-family balance in male-dominated industries
4: Extend the obligation to mediate in the case of break-ups and parental conflicts to six hours before proceedings can be brought before the courts
5: Strengthen the courts’ ability to impose shared residence
6: Adding the competence to move the child domestically to parental responsibility
7: Introduce economic arrangements that promote equality
8: Investigate the statutory right to unpaid leave for care work for people outside the immediate family
9: Investigate the legal framework for children in families with more than two carers
Gender differences in education and working life:
10: Introduce play-based learning in the kindergarten
11: Introduce flexible school start
12: Introduce more practical and varied everyday school life
13: Strengthen alternative courses of study in upper secondary education
14: Ensure the right to an apprenticeship
15: Change the point calculation on the diploma from primary school and upper secondary education
16: Carry out a national initiative for more young people to choose and complete non-traditional gender education programs in vocational subjects
17: Carry out a national initiative for more men to choose and complete health, care, social and educational subjects in higher education
18: Change admission rules to higher education
19: Increased efforts for a psychosocial working environment, and against harassment and sexual harassment in working life
Exposure and health:
20: Set up a men’s health committee
21: Investigate a national screening program for prostate cancer
22: Making health services more accessible to boys and men
23: Carry out an investment in sexual health
24: Increase healthcare personnel’s knowledge of men’s health challenges in order to make better use of the potential of consultation
25: Strengthen efforts to prevent suicide
26: Strengthen the offers in mental health care, drug treatment and prisons
27: Establish more meeting places for boys and men
28: Countering social differences in children’s and young people’s leisure activities
29: Establish a leisure club offer in all municipalities
30: Provide better help to victims of non-familial violence
31: Strengthen the help offered to people who practice violence in close relationships
An equality policy for all:
32: Introduce a gender-neutral objective provision in the Equality and Discrimination Act 33: Introduce more effective means in the equality policy
34: Revise statistics pages and indicators for gender equality
35: Obtain more research and knowledge about men’s equality challenges
Source: The Men’s Committee’s report
