With the list are among the other professions also county, Parliamentary Ombudsman and still also State Mediator.
- It is strange that we maintain these concepts at a time when we want the roles to be filled by different gender and different people, says equality ombudsman Sunniva Erstavik to the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung (ANB).
She believes that the "midwife" and "health" does not help to recruit young men to health care, and that it would be symbolically important to change the titles of chief and sheriff to bring up the proportion of women in these power jobs.
- It’s admittedly a small symbolic gesture, and many other steps be taken to fight against our stereotypes, but to change the titles can be an important small step, "says Erstavik.
Leader of the country group of health sisters, Astrid Grydeland Ersvik, says that the title nurse is to be carried in the land group.
- We have not decided that the title should be changed, but we shall now see whether we can come up with good alternatives, "says Ersvik.