Switzerland is hyper reactionary in many ways. Since basically everything of note has to be approved via referendum, men prevented women from having many basic rights until very recently.
For example, women officially gained gender equality in marriage in 1985 after a narrowly-won referendum abolished the legal authority of the husband. Prior to that, husbands could actually prevent their wives from getting a job and opening a bank account. Furthermore, up until 1992, Swiss women lost their nationality when they married a foreigner. Switzerland didn’t criminalize domestic violence until the 1990s, either.
You’d expect nothing less from the country where all the rich people hide their money and the designated bourgeois safe zone.
Wish they would’ve put the US in here for easier comparison.
Somewhere in 1920’s if I’m not mistaken?
1919 to be exact. The effort of women in war and their actions in stopping the Spanish flu gave the movement the final push it needed to achieve success, fairly early in the grand scheme of things. However it was a fairly hollow victory since mainly only rich upper class women could vote. While other women could vote on paper, the multitude of classist measures such as polling taxes, limited polling hours and polls, literacy tests, and racial profiling limited the availability of voting.
Thanks!