The Swiss Womens' Strike Today

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Women in Switzerland are striking today because of the country’s poor record on defending the rights of women and families.

uk.reuters.com/article/uk-swiss-women/pay-time-respect-nearly-three-decades-on-swiss-women-strike-again-idUKKCN1TD1O7
Pay, time, respect: nearly three decades on, Swiss women strike again

Just YESTERDAY the BBC ran this story:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-48612493
UK one of 'least family friendly' countries in Europe

Researchers for Unicef ranked 31 countries on their length of maternity and paternity leave and the proportions of pre-school children above and below the age of three in childcare.

The only European countries below the UK were Cyprus, Greece and Switzerland

www.unicef.org/press-releases/sweden-norway-iceland-and-estonia-rank-highest-family-friendly-policies-oecd-and-eu
Unicef Press Release on this.

www.unicef-irc.org/family-friendly
Full report

wow! props to the women of Switzerland. thanks for posting this red, it;s so interesting

I'm in Switzerland at the moment.

noticing any effects Lass?

No. None.

Not a success then...?

Too difficult to tell. I'm in a posh hotel in the countryside. Most of the staff are men, and like posh hotels in the UK, the chambermaids are , I'm guessing, not nationals anyway.

Not surprising they are pissed off. Women didn't get the vote in Switzerland until 1971 so the country is hardly in the vanguard of equal rights.

I know that this story is of a totally different country but the women of Iceland went on strike in 1975 with huge success.
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/timeline.com/amp/p/d3fc44a116cf