Sweden the most classless
NZPA-Reuter Stockholm Sweden, renowned for its social equality, is the most classless country in the world, according to a Government study. i The report, by the Central Bureau of Statistics, plots the progress of social conditions, class structure and equality between 1975 and 1985, and concludes that. Swedes are making most progress towards breaking down barriers of sex and class.
“Social mobility is greater in Sweden than in other countries and it has also increased .... because society has become more open to class movement,” the report said. “At present we have limited scope for making international comparison, but as far as we can see, inequality in Sweden is less marked than in other countries,” it said. The study said that Swedish women had gained much ground in securing equal pay for equal work, but that higher-educated women were still losing out to their male colleagues.
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