Cluster: Swiss Identity

Women farmers caught between law and tradition

This content was published on Oct 25, 2012 The study, released by the Federal Agriculture Office, reveals these realities and others about the modern women working in the agricultural sector. While two-thirds of respondents say they are generally satisfied with their lives and work – up 15 per cent from a similar study done ten years ago – the clash between tradition and…

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Farming basics, a crash course for women

This content was published on Oct 25, 2012 At the same time, another group of women works in a greenhouse, carefully measuring the distance between furrows and dropping seeds into the soil one by one as they learn to plant a winter garden. Later, they will learn how to keep track of expenses and write invoices to the businesses that buy their wares.…

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Woman in a man’s world

This content was published on Oct 25, 2012 Silvia Ulrich was one of a handful of women in agriculture school, but she didn’t get too much flak from the guys. She went to the school because in order to take over her parents’ farm, having a diploma in agriculture could become a legal must-have one day. (Raffaella Rossello, swissinfo.ch)

Novartis flu vaccine deliveries stopped

This content was published on Oct 24, 2012 Swissmedic said it was acting was due to “possible impurities,” in Agrippal and Fluad. At most 160,000 vaccine doses were be affected, it said in a statement, adding that it had acted immediately being informed by the Italians. “Given the current unclear situation Swissmedic has issued a halt on deliveries for the cited vaccines and…

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Youth sense discrimination amid generation gap

This content was published on Oct 24, 2012 According to the 2012 Social Report, which comes out every four years, the Swiss government provides 45 per cent of its social support funds to the elderly, a record amount in Europe. Just five per cent of social support goes to young people. Members of younger generations also report having trouble entering the workplace and…

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Switzerland ranks tenth in global gender parity

This content was published on Oct 24, 2012 The Global Gender Gap Report, produced since 2006 by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF), ranks countries on their ability to close the gender gap in four areas: access to health, education, political participation and economic equality. In 2012 the number of countries evaluated was 135. Switzerland has made considerable strides since 2006, when it…

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Press criticise UCI in Armstrong affair

This content was published on Oct 23, 2012 While tabloid Blick talked about Armstrong’s “Seven deadly sins” and Zurich’s Tages-Anzeiger opened its editorial with the “deserved” ban, the French-language papers focused on the role of the UCI, which had “saved face” but “lost credibility”. On Monday, 41-year-old Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life after the…

Culture

Tribal art remains a big draw for the Swiss

This content was published on Oct 23, 2012 Collections of tribal art – the visual arts and material culture of indigenous peoples – have flourished in Switzerland, where the tribal art scene is not the only thing to prosper: the debate about where art belongs rears its head regularly too. “The Swiss are an extremely curious people – the first ethnographic collection in…

Culture

Aboriginal art in the home of absinthe

This content was published on Oct 23, 2012 The rolling green hills around Môtiers don’t have much in common with the Australian outback, but neither is the village at the end of the Val de Travers valley one of the busiest places in Switzerland. This is a village of 800 people who are more used to being associated with the green absinthe fairy.…

Culture

“Beautiful women” visit Zurich

This content was published on Oct 23, 2012 The 100 wood engravings chosen come from the Honolulu Museum of Art, whose collection comprises some 10,000 individual sheets. The American writer and collector James A. Michener (1907-1997) was particularly fascinated by the “beautiful women” and bequeathed his collection to the museum. (Images: © Honolulu Museum of Art)

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