Of all research and teaching staff at Sweden’s universities, almost half are women, but most professors are still men. In the 2012 government letter, all Swedish institutions of higher education received a recruitment target, stating that 40 percent of professors employed between 2012-2015 should be women. As part of it’s action plan, the University of Gothenburg launched a so-called Professorship Project, which should stimulate and facilitate women who were employed as researchers or lecturers, to achieve professor merits. The project has been analyzed and the evaluation report can be found here (in Swedish only): https://medarbetarportalen.gu.se/digitalAssets/1674/1674481_professorsprojektet.pdf