Women strike to secure the rights promised in Swiss constitution
Protesters back on the streets of Zurich and Lausanne after walkout 28 years ago failed to deliver gender equality
14 June 2019 - 15:12
Lausanne/Zurich — Women across Switzerland held a strike on Friday to highlight their wealthy nation’s poor record on female rights, recreating the passion of the first such walkout 28 years ago.
In Lausanne, chanting protesters gathered at midnight outside the cathedral tower, whose bell was illuminated in purple, the official colour of the protest. Blowing whistles and banging pots and pans, hundreds of demonstrators — mostly women but also men — carried placards reading “no means no”, “I am not a princess but the woman I choose to be”, and “don’t free me, I’ll do that myself”...
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