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| 354.1 | Other possible conference sources | AQUA::WAGMAN | QQSV | Wed Dec 21 1988 17:25 | 6 |
| You might want to ask in CHORD::HELVETICA, the conference on Switzerland
(hit KP7 and all that). That conference doesn't seem to have too much
activity, though. If no one answers there you might also try EURO_WOMAN
(currently it lives at TRUCKS::DISK$USER75:[GKE]EURO_WOMAN).
--Q (Dick Wagman)
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| 354.2 | | SQM::MAURER | Rest you merry | Thu Dec 22 1988 08:05 | 13 |
| One canton in which women are not allowed to vote in local elections is
the Appenzell. I have not heard of any other. The Appenzell is
a lovely region, but the Appenzellois (the people) are considered
to be somewhat "back-woods" by many Swiss.
I don't think Switzerland has a vice president. It has a seven member
council. These seven people take turns being head-of-state for a year.
The position doesn't give them any extra power; it is mostly for
ceremonial purposes. Sometime around 1985, a woman made it to this
council. She was a conservative, of course, as is most of the country
(but certainly not all).
Helen
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| 354.3 | Times are changing | MINNY::ZIMMERMANND | | Thu Dec 22 1988 09:19 | 21 |
| Jody,
There is in fact 1 canton (state), which is divided into 2 subcantons,
where women can't vote in *cantonal* votations/elections.
Your information about our first female vice-president, who had
to resign because of her husband, is also correct.
Since 16 years, all Swiss women can vote/elect/be elected on a
*national* level.
Up to the recent past, things went a bit slowly over here. Women
(and some men) had to fight for about 50 years to get the right
to vote and elect. This goal was achieved in 1972. In 1984 we even
got an Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution. Currently quite
a few laws are being changed (mainly the marital laws) in order
to match this Amendment.
Doris Zimmermann
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| 354.4 | now *that's* interesting! | RAINBO::TARBET | | Thu Dec 22 1988 09:35 | 4 |
| I didn't know that even some men couldn't vote, Doris. What was
the basis for being allowed to vote? Ownership of land?
=maggie
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| 354.5 | Ooops | MINNY::ZIMMERMANND | | Thu Dec 22 1988 09:44 | 7 |
| Sorry, the language made me do it.
English is not my native language (as you most probably realised).
What I wanted to say was that some men were involved in the "fight".
Men were always allowed to vote.
Doris
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| 354.6 | | RAINBO::TARBET | | Thu Dec 22 1988 10:29 | 6 |
| Oh, okay, that's what I'd thought. (Your command of english is
terrific, btw, you just got caught by the same thing that catches most
native speakers at one time or another: the infamous Dangling Modifier
Problem)
=maggie
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| 354.7 | include historical perspective | SKYWAY::BENZ | SW-Licencing, Switzerland (@ZUO) | Thu Jan 19 1989 17:14 | 20 |
| It's called democratic process.
When Switzerland was founded in Switzerland by a bunch of unruly
terrorists in 1291, they made up something like a constituition,
where they also defined the right to vote for a subgroup of the
population - which happended to be all men.
So, to change the constitution, *men* had to vote to give the vote to women.
I wonder what the result of such a vote would be in America today...
On the female Vice-President: She was caught giving confidential
information from her ministry to her husband. She had the ministry
of justice, which amongst other things had to investigate money
laundring. Her husband was on the board of directors of a company
who was (is) allegedly laundring drug money. A nice little family
business. A connection to the Oliver North affair is rumoured as
well.
Regards,
Heinrich
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