jämställdhet

Etymology
From. (edited in 1934) lists the verb, now spelled , but neither the adjective nor the noun. Discussions on gender equality in the 1960s used both and, but in the mid 1970s,  began to dominate in this context, and this was manifest in November 1976, when the Swedish government appointed a committee, jämställdhetskommittén chaired by Karin Andersson, which later proposed Sweden's gender equality law, enacted in 1979, lagen (1979:1118) om jämställdhet mellan kvinnor och män i arbetslivet, or jämställdhetslagen for short. After this, the qualifier mellan man och kvinna ("between men and women") became implied in a default context.

Noun

 * 1) gender equality
 * 2)  equality