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Report January – March 2024

We were just about to welcome Spring to Sweden when we today (April 2nd) got a full-onwinter storm with snow again. Despite the lack of spring weather the Swedish MedicalWomen (KLF) recently hosted its Annual Board Meeting with the connected Spring Meetingfor our...

Report October – December 2023

With 2023 coming to an end, we look back at an eventful year for KLF and our members. This fall we had our annual fall meeting, discussing home birth and its recent increasing popularity in Sweden. Representatives from the Swedish Midwife Association and the Swedish...

Report April – June 2023

In April, the board of KLF (Swedish Medical Women Association), with its five new board members, had its annual weekend-long board meeting, discussing interesting and important issues to address this upcoming year in our work to reach gender equal health care as well...

Report January – March 2023

The Annual Board meeting and the connected Spring Meeting of the Swedish Medical Women’s Association (KLF) took place in Stockholm in March. The theme of the day was “The Unequal Stress”. We learnt that family responsibility and the unequal distribution of housework...

Report October – December 2022

This autumn, it is five years since the Swedish #UtanTystnadsplikt movement started (translated “free from professional secrecy”). #UtanTystnadsplikt was inspired by the #MeToo movement. In 2017, 10,400 female physicians and medical students joined to raise their...