2019 Swiss women's strike

Hundreds of thousands of Swiss women went on strike to protest gender inequalities on 14 June 2019. The women's strike, known as Frauenstreik (German) and Grève des Femmes (French) online, consisted of demonstrations in the country's major municipalities for equal pay, recognition of unpaid care work, and governmental representation.[1]

Women's strike demonstration in Basel
Viola Amherd (member of the Swiss government, with white jacket), Marina Carobbio Guscetti (president of the National Council, on the right) and more woman MPs

The date of the 2019 Swiss women's strike was set to match the 1991 Swiss women's strike, which was organised 10 years after the acceptance by the Swiss population of the constitutional article on the equality between women and men on June 14th, 1981.[2]

References
  1. Cumming-Bruce, Nick; Schaverien, Anna (June 15, 2019). "Swiss Women Strike Nationwide to Protest Inequalities". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on June 14, 2019. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
  2. "Swiss Constitution, RS101, Art 8 §3" (in French).

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