Senate President Eva Herzog welcomes women to the Federal Palace
President of the Senate Eva Herzog welcomed over 350 women from all parts of the country and all sectors of society to the Federal Palace on Friday to mark International Women’s Day.
In her opening speech, Herzog focussed on the financial independence of women. “For women to be able to act freely and self-determined, they must also be financially independent. And that is not the case for many,” said Herzog in her speech.
Today, the labour market participation of young women and men has come much closer. However, financial independence remains a challenge for many women. Equal pay has not been achieved. This has a corresponding impact on income and pensions. “Money means power,” explained Herzog. In addition to civil courage, systemic changes are needed in the world of work, in pension schemes and in tax law.
The agenda at the Federal Palace includes workshops with several former female parliamentarians and a discussion with President Viola Amherd and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric.
Adapted from German by DeepL/amva
This news story has been written and carefully fact-checked by an external editorial team. At SWI swissinfo.ch we select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools such as DeepL to translate it into English. Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles.
If you want to know more about how we work, have a look here, and if you have feedback on this news story please write to english@swissinfo.ch.
In compliance with the JTI standards
More: SWI swissinfo.ch certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative
You can find an overview of ongoing debates with our journalists here. Please join us!
If you want to start a conversation about a topic raised in this article or want to report factual errors, email us at english@swissinfo.ch.