Financial support of women to be promoted to professors illegal

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Published on Friday, 04 September 2015 08:05

Written by Paula Wennberg

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According to the Swedish law men are not allowed to be excluded form the opportunity to apply for research funding. The judgment of the Labour Court was published on July 15, 2015. What happened is that a Swedish university announced by email the possibility of applying research funding but the information was sent merely to women researchers. A male employee filed a complaint to the Equality Ombudsman and they took the matter to the Labour Court.