Given its reputation for advancing gender equality, Sweden offers a unique setting for exploring how gender shapes activism. In this chapter, I use two strategies to examine how gender is deployed and challenged by activism in Sweden. First, I provide a review of research published since the 1990s. Second, I discuss three perspectives on everyday action in studies of social movements: from everyday action to extraordinary activism, from extraordinary activism to everyday action, and everyday action within extraordinary activism. Each perspective is tied to a definition of power: as a centralized authority, as movement actors’ agency, and as decentralized in everyday interactions. Therefore, each perspective sheds light on a different way in which gender shapes activism. I illustrate each perspective with research findings on a wide range of activism in Sweden, and then illustrate all three perspectives on the single case of union activism.