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Switzerland marks 50 years of women voting dw.com 07/02/2021 Olivera Zivkovic
Switzerland is celebrating the 50th anniversary of giving women the right to vote. But why was the country so late and where does it stand today? DW spoke to two feminist experts in search for answers. © KEYSTONE/picture alliance One of the largest and most significant protests took place in Berne in 1969 For a long time, it was a part of the Swiss identity, that we are an ancient democracy. But this means that we are accepting, that only because men said that we are a democracy, we must be. This idea is gone now, says Zita Küng, one of the most influential Swiss feminist activists.
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