Objekt 2205
Equality.period.end!
Description
Fact Wall: Equal Rights - The Long Struggle for Women's Suffrage.
Wall left:
At 42%, the proportion of women in the Basel Grand Council as of February 2021 is higher than ever before.
in 1958, Riehen becomes the first civic community in Switzerland to introduce voting rights for female citizens.
in 2001, the University of Basel opens the Center for Gender Studies.
it took 123 years after "universal" voting rights were enshrined in the Federal Constitution of 1848 before women were also allowed to vote.
Since 1983, unmarried women in the Basel administration have been officially addressed as "Frau" rather than "Fräulein."
in 2020, the bill for a two-week paid paternity leave is adopted.
Wall right:
Of the 25,900 board members of Swiss companies, 22,000 are men.
Since 1946, all four of Switzerland's major neighbors have known women's suffrage: Germany and Austria since 1918, France since 1944, Italy since 1946.
In Switzerland as a whole, 83 referendums were held on the cantonal women's suffrage and
-suffrage have been held.
in 2002, 72.2 % of the electorate voted in favor of the time-limit regulation for abortion
in 1964, the first Matura student receives her diploma at the Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliches Gymnasium Basel.
On June 14, 1991, some 500,000 women take part in the first nationwide women's strike.
Object description
Women are still disadvantaged in some areas of society. The national women's strike 2019 therefore called for, among other things, equal professional opportunities, equal pay, a higher valuation and better distribution of care work and protection against violence.
The stencil was used to print on T-shirts, bags or banners. The gender star in the lettering "Frauen*streik" shows the change of the movement - away from a pure women's movement to a movement that includes a variety of gender identities and sexual orientations.
Stencil with the lettering "AUF ZUM FRAUEN*STREIK"
Basel, 2019
Cardboard, paint remnants
Gift Frauen*streik-Komitee Basel
Inv. 2019.378.