The right choice if you want marriage
While Swedish men may not impress you with their dating skills, their deep-rooted beliefs in the equality of sexes may make them perfect as marital partners. Swedish men are far more likely to take on their share of household chores and domestic responsibilities in a marriage as compared to men of other developed countries like America, Japan and Australia. In fact a news report in The Local, an English language Swedish newspaper claimed that Swedish men’s enlightened attitudes toward equality and gender roles make them among the best potential husbands in the developed world. The report quoted a survey carried out by Oxford University economist Almudena Sevilla-Sanz and published in 2009 in the Journal of Population Economics, which took into account gender roles in twelve developed countries of the world. Such an inference is hardly surprising, considering that Sweden was one of the first countries in the world to replace maternity leave with parental leave in 1974. In fact, present Swedish laws not only offer a generous, fully-paid thirteen-month parental leave upon the birth of children but actually reserve three months of it exclusively for the fathers. Together with state laws, Swedish men genuinely believe in caring for their homes and families which is why they could make a great choice if you are looking for a partner to settle down with, to content domesticity.