Swiss women strike for more money, time and respect
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#2Cheap politics.
Fried rights.
Rainbow slogans.
FREE power.
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#3What a pleasure this morning, lot of places in public transportation, fluid traffic, people arrive at work with a smile, then we can work on an exceptionally zen atmosphere.
They can repeat this operation as often as they please.
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#4In 21st century it's fashionable to lobby the government to assign you rents. If you don't protest, you only get what the market thinks is fair. That's not enough.
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#5"stage", well said.
>However, women in Switzerland still earn on average 20% less than men, they are under-represented in management positions, and childcare remains not only expensive, but in short supply.
Women are less valuable? How will a strike solve this? I mean if this was true and I was a business owner I would only hire women because I could pay 20 % less. But of course that's not the way it works. Those "facts" are manipulative.
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#6I see just two comments right now and I see a lot of cynism.
Things are better today than in the past thanks to people fighting for their and others rights. And the job is not finished.
Democracy is not something that happens once each four years. It's important to vote, but as important is to express your dissatisfaction with the wrongdoings of the system.
> Ms Born, who joined a newsroom staffed entirely by men in 1986, is quietly optimistic. "We've achieved some good things since 1991," she points out. "We have maternity leave now."
Parental leave seams such a natural right to have that it's strange that there exists any opposition to it. Mothers and fathers benefit from it. Fighting for women's rights is also figthing for a more just and balance society for everyone.
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#7I see just two comments right now and I see a lot of cynism. Things are better today than in the past thanks to people fighting for their and others rights. And the job is not finished. Democracy is not something that happens once each four years. It's important to vote, but as important is to express your dissatisfaction with the wrongdoings of the system. > Ms Born, who joined a newsroom staffed entirely by men in…
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#8I see just two comments right now and I see a lot of cynism. Things are better today than in the past thanks to people fighting for their and others rights. And the job is not finished. Democracy is not something that happens once each four years. It's important to vote, but as important is to express your dissatisfaction with the wrongdoings of the system. > Ms Born, who joined a newsroom staffed entirely by men in…
> Parental leave seams such a natural right to have that it's strange that there exists any opposition to it. Mothers and fathers benefit from it. Fighting for women's rights is also figthing for a more just and balance society for everyone.
Yet our government (I'm swiss) stubbornly refuses to introduce a paternity leave. This will hopefully change in the coming years because they will be forced to through an initiative (one collected enough signatures already and a vote will follow).
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#9> Swiss women's pensions are 37% lower than men's, primarily because women take time out from work to raise their children
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#10What does "done" look like?
I am not at all that anything is, but I am saying in many cases we are closer to the finish line than the starting line. (If we come to think of it there are things which have been completed to the extent that many people don't even know they existed)
In some cases the good fight for equality has transferred into something besides good or equal.
When do you start thinking about how to cross the finish line and what should you do?