Hållbarhet eller särintresse? : Hur svenska kommuner skapar samhällsvärde av Agenda 2030 och jämställdhet

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this essay is to investigate, through qualitative content analysis, how Agenda 2030's gender equality goals are expressed, as a public value in a selection of Swedish municipalities. The aim is to analyse what happens when the local government starts to govern towards global cross-sectoral gender equality policy goals. The intention is further to investigate how the municipalities mediate, express, and communicate their sustainability work towards the citizens through their websites as well as in their policy documents. The theoretical construction is based on the theory of public value, by explaining how gender equality can be expressed as either qualitative gender equality, quantitative gender equality or undefined gender equality. If the municipalities' arguments can be explained with the principles of public value, the efforts can be defined as value for the community. The results show that gender equality-integrated sustainability goals are not quite self-evidently expressed as a public value, which can be explained as undefined gender equality. This because gender equality goals in a majority of surveyed municipalities are formulated as a special interest separated from the sustainability work. Local conditions determine the outcome and what is important for each municipality and its residents.