The 8th of March is International Women’s Day, an event started in 1911 when Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland celebrated it for the first time. In 1910, Clara Zetkin, a communist activist and women’s rights advocate in Germany, presented the idea at an International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen. Switzerland’s highly priced and often scarce childcare are a shock to many who arrive in Switzerland from other OECD nations. And school timetables that exclude lunchtimes add further to the challenges faced by working parents. Increasing paid leave for new parents is a perennial point of political friction in Switzerland.

Source: Le News March 09, 2024 12:37 UTC