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Today, in Korea, the level of gender equality is very low comparing with another countries. Although the Korean women have been improving in education and labor force participation, the male dominance and accompanying discrimination against women is persisted.
This is caused by the low level of the political empowerment of women in Korea. Why is the political empowerment of women important related to the gender equality? So this study tries to find the answer by analyzing the Swedish case in the Power Resources theory.
In the result, the power resources of women impacts the policy of gender equality. The key element of the power resources is the political empowerment in women. The sweden women movement has been strengthen their political empowerment though the state feminism which is feminism created or approved by the government of a state or nation. It usually specifies a particular program. In Sweden, the women movement is join with the social democratic party especially. the women political organization have permeated to the party, Union, and the Parliamentary. So they have influenced to make the gender equality policy. Since 1945, they tried to influence the child care and the parental leaves. They are very important policy impacting the gender equality.