Women from across Swiss society plan to take to the streets this Friday for a na...
ZURICH/GENEVA - Women from across Swiss society plan to take to the streets this Friday for a nationwide strike aimed at highlighting the country’s poor record on defending the rights of women and families.
Using the slogan “Pay, time, respect!” Friday’s event echoes a strike held in 1991, five years before Switzerland Gender Equality Act came into force. “I think the time has come to finally take measures so that women can take their rightful place in the decision-making spheres and defend their interests at all levels of society,” said Adele Thorens, a 48-year-old politician for the Green Party in Lausanne.
Swiss women earn roughly 20% less than men. While that is down from about a third in 1991, the discrimination gap — meaning differences that cannot be explained by rank or role — has actually worsened since 2000, Federal Statistics Office data show. Professional snowboarder Anne-Flore Marxer, 35, said she had seen first-hand how discrimination persists in sport as well.
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