Women are set to take over traditional male roles in Sweden, according to a new forecast. Within 20 years, the majority of doctors, architects, lawyers and economists in the country will be female, if the latest figures from Statistics Sweden (SCB) are to be believed. Read the full story

Single women, gay couples and heterosexual couples who both suffer from fertility issues now have permission to use both donor eggs and donor sperm in IVF treatment following a law passed my Iceland’s Althingi parliament yesterday. Read the full story

Controversial Swedish ‘hate cleric’, Abdullah Hakim Quick, did not speak at the Easter weekend conference of young Swedish Muslims after his invitation was withdrawn. Read the full story

Southern Sweden’s Lund University has agreed to pay out compensation to two dozen female students who were refused entrance into the psychology programme on gender grounds. Read the full story

Danish politicians have lashed out at a decision by a school in Copenhagen to prohibit fathers of pupils from a parental meeting out of apparent respect for Muslim mothers. The incident has caused deep divisions between school and national leaders. Read the full story

26-year-old Swedish man Ragnar Bengtsson has failed in his much publicised attempt to generate breast milk. Instead, the products of his efforts have seen him rewarded with a trip to the United States to appear on The Tyra Banks Show. Read the full story

Iceland places top on the new World Economic Forum ranking of nations by gender equality. Former pole sitter, Norway is pushed into third. With Finland in second and Sweden in fourth, it is a strong showing from the Nordic countries. Read the full story

Anna Anka, the Swedish-born wife of legendary cabaret singer Paul Anka, has berated Swedish men for their “tragic” house husbandry ways in her column on opinion site Newsmill. Read the full story

In an attempt to lighten the mood of stuffy “anti-fun” Swedish politicians, Ireland-based budget carrier Ryanair has responded to outrage over an allegedly sexist advertising campaign by sending copies of its sexy 2009 cabin crew calendar to certain Swedish politicians. Read the full story

Once again the nations of Scandinavia are considered to have the highest levels of gender equality in the world. The Swiss-based World Economic Forum, which conducts the annual ranking of 130 countries, found that Norway, Finland and Sweden ranked top of the list, respectively.

The survey looks at how each country attempts to close the gap between men and women on issues such as education, economic participation, health, political opportunity and survival. The three Nordic countries only have gaps of around 20 percent, while nations like Yemen, ranking at the bottom of the list, have a gap of over 54 percent.

Yemen was followed by Chad, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Benin, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey and Ethiopia as having the widest gender gaps. The US moved up four spots this year to number 27, closing about 71 percent of its gender gap mainly due to improvements on political empowerment Read the full story