Varför har Sverige hittills inte haft en kvinnlig statsminister? : En jämförandestudie mellan Sverige, Norge samt Danmark kring betydelsen av hög utbildning och engagemang.

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate and compare party leaders in Sweden, Norway and Denmark based on Jenny Madestam's research on how party leaders are elected and see if demonstrated loyalty, previous assignments in politics and higher education are criterias that are more difficult for women to fulfill than it is for men and if it could then be one of many reasons that led to the fact that in Sweden there has not been a female prime minister so far. In Madestam's research it emerged that in Sweden's parties it was important with, among other things, these criteria when a new party leader was to be appointed, then it was discussed whether these criteria were more favorable for men than women as women have historically been more at home than men. Should have influenced how women had the opportunity to get involved politically and provided higher education. By examining whether the party leaders in question have first and foremost shown loyalty to their party in the form of a long-term commitment within the party. Then if the party leaders have previously held some form of ministerial post or higher post within their party, and finally if the party leader has a higher completed education than high school, this is then analyzed to see if this hypothesis could be falsified or not. As Norway and Denmark have had female prime ministers, the hypothesis will be falsified if they meet the criteria to the same or greater degree than Sweden, and if they do not, the hypothesis will not be falsified. When all data were compiled and the countries were compared, the analysis showed that Sweden did not meet the criteria/characteristics to a greater extent than other countries. In Norway, the results showed that all party leaders in the survey met all three criteria. In Denmark, the results showed that all party leaders had a high level of education, all but one of the party leaders had shown loyalty to his party and all of the party leaders except two had previously held other ministerial posts. In Sweden, all party leaders had shown loyalty to their party and previously held another ministerial post, but not all of the party leaders had a high level of education. The conclusion was that Sweden did not meet the criteria to a greater extent than the other countries and thus the hypothesis had to be falsified.