Comment by acqq
10 years ago
It's not an argument against Switzerland, just an argument that women had officially less rights even in rich Western societies until very recently and that it wasn't easy to achieve the current state.
10 years ago
It's not an argument against Switzerland, just an argument that women had officially less rights even in rich Western societies until very recently and that it wasn't easy to achieve the current state.
I didn't take it as an argument against Switzerland. It's just that there are always good or bad reasons behind such one liners.
When we grow up, we think the world as it is now has always been that way. Only with time we learn that lots of what we take for granted has actually been around for a very short time.
In Portugal, women got granted the same rights to vote as men only in 1976 because the country was a dictatorship until then. Hard to imagine that there were dictatorships in Europe only 40 years ago. In Spain, the other dictatorship at the time, women got the right to vote in 1931 but because of the dictatorship soon established afterwards, they couldn't vote for 40 years (of course, neither could men).