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