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IN PICTURES: Women in Switzerland rise up in demand for equal pay

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 17:06:11 +0200

UPDATE: Unions have said several hundred thousand purple-clad protesters blowing whistles, banging pots and pans and brandishing feminist slogans filled the streets of Swiss towns and cities on Friday, as women across the country went on strike for equal pay.

'We want to block the country': Women in Switzerland to march for equal pay

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 11:25:26 +0200

Women across Switzerland are set to walk off the job and into the streets Friday to demand wage parity, nearly three decades after staging the country's first nationwide strike for equal pay.

20,000 march for wage equality in Switzerland

Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:36:34 +0200

Some 20,000 people marched in Bern Saturday demanding wage equality between the genders, organisers said, warning that women are prepared to go on strike if Swiss parliamentarians do not fix the pay gap.

Glass ceiling: report highlights huge gender divide on Swiss boards

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 11:14:40 +0100

Swiss women only won the right to vote in 1971 but the country has come a long way since then when it comes to equality between the sexes.

Progress on women in politics 'stagnating': IPU

Thu, 05 Mar 2015 23:35:14 +0100

The share of women in the world's parliaments has almost doubled in the last two decades but progress is stagnating, the Geneva-based International Parliamentary Union said on Thursday.

Switzerland slips in gender equality rankings

Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:54:00 +0100

Switzerland has slipped in the 2014 global rankings for gender equality to 11th place from ninth last year in an annual report from the Geneva-based World Economic Forum.

Women’s rights activist disrobes for equality

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:16:19 +0200

A new campaign launched by a women’s organisation portrays the group’s young secretary general covered only by a banner as she seeks to lead the charge for more female representation in the upper echelons of Swiss society.