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Jewert, Jenny
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Jenny Jewert on bitter bitches and equal rights
In her novel Bitter Bitch, which has been translated into several languages, Swedish author Maria Sveland describes the enormous frustration felt by countless women who live in the country that is widely considered to be a model of equal rights for women. Writing in the daily Dagens Nyheter Jenny Jewert puts the ball back in the women's court: "Many of us are thankful for all the political progress that the generations of women before us achieved. You gave us the opportunity and the desire to have a career. But at the same time the bitter bitch inside us is forced to realise that we live with your sons, who often possess an amazing ability to ignore dying geraniums, as well as bits of food on the floor and empty toilet paper holders. Why else would a book like Bitter Bitch have become such a hit? No parliamentary decision can stipulate who sorts out the washing or who mows the lawn. But a system for splitting parental allowance and the money paid by the state to parents looking after children would be a necessary structural change which would help future families. In both political blocks there are forces working for this which need our support."
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More from the press review on the subject » Gender equality, » Sweden
Water brings responsibility
World Water Week begins today in Stockholm. Researchers and experts from all over the world will meet in the Swedish capital to discuss the consequences of dwindling water supplies worldwide. The daily Dagens Nyheter notes that poor countries are the worst affected: "Climate, food, water and energy are all closely interconnected and call for a holistic understanding of the system among those who are working towards sustainable solutions. Climate change threatens to aggravate the unjust distribution of water supplies, and the responsibility for feeding the world population thus lies with those regions in our part of the world that have a more favourable climate."
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