Flowers or half-day leave: what you need to know on International Women’s Day

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The first Women’s Days 100 years ago were left-wing revolutionary days of struggle for equal rights and women’s suffrage. The “over-liberated” agitators were also met with hostility by middle-class women, who were not allowed to demonstrate through street feces and expose themselves on podiums as women of the same sex.

Today, women take to the streets against domestic violence, wage and retirement injustice, and the fact that they often do unpaid work at home and family, but also to promote more flexible living models.

The pioneer of the first Women’s Days was the German socialist Clara Zetkin (1857–1933). March 8 is the day when workers, soldiers’ wives, and farmers’ wives arrive in St. It refers to March 8, 1917, when he took to the streets in St. Petersburg and helped trigger the February Revolution.

At the 2nd International Communist Women’s Conference held in Moscow in 1921, March 8 was officially declared as an international day of remembrance. Previously, Women’s Day was held on other dates. 1918, around May 5, the 100th birthday of Karl Marx.

The first Women’s Day in Europe was celebrated on March 19, 1911 in Germany, Denmark, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland; March 18 is a day of remembrance for those who were martyred during the March Revolution of 1848.

March 8 is a public holiday for everyone in Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar, Moldova, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, Zambia, Serbia . Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. But there is a type of Mother’s Day where women receive flowers and are “thanked.”

Women’s Day was banned in Nazi Germany; “Communist” events contradicted the ideology of women and mothers at the fireside. After 1945, it began to be celebrated only in East Germany. Following reunification in 1989, Women’s Day experienced a nationwide renaissance.

In Italy, on March 8, women are given a yellow mimosa, the symbol of resistance fighters during fascist rule. In China, women receive half-day leave or small gifts from the company. Some restaurants and shops in Switzerland distribute flowers to female visitors on this day; However, many women think it is a fraud because it does not reflect the seriousness of the issue.

Since 2013, married couples can use their own names when getting married. However, almost half (49.5 percent) of women who married in 2013 and 2014 took their husband’s surname. The younger the bride and groom, the more likely the woman is to take the man’s name. If men and women are between the ages of 18 and 24, more than 70 percent of women take their husband’s surname.

Switzerland’s 1988 marriage law made women equal to men. The rule that the man was the head of the family and the woman should manage the house was abolished.

In 1990, all cantons and municipalities introduced women’s right to vote. In 1996, the Equal Opportunities Act came into force, aiming to eliminate the structural disadvantages of women in working life (low wages, unequal employment and promotion opportunities, sexual harassment).

The ten most popular apprenticeships for women in Switzerland (as of 2015) are businesswoman, healthcare professional, care professional, retail specialist, hairdresser, retail assistant, dental assistant, medical practice assistant, pharmacist assistant, health and social assistant. Young men want to learn to be (in that order) a businessman, an electrician, a computer scientist, a polymechanic, a retail specialist, a logistician, an automobile specialist, a farmer, a draftsman, and a cook.

In 1905, the first driving schools with all-male driving schools were opened in Switzerland. A driving test in 1912 lasted about ten minutes, was generally successful and was then celebrated in a restaurant. In 1974, 63 percent of men and only 36 percent of women had a driver’s license. Today, 88 percent of men and 76 percent of women have an ID card (Micro Census Mobility and Transport from the Federal Office for Statistics). On average, women take 29 driving lessons and men take 20 before they dare to take the test. (Survey with 570 participants on the portal Fahrlehrvergleich.ch).

Currently, more than 18 percent of women in Switzerland complete their education at a university. For men, this rate is just under 14 percent. Males continue to be the majority in applied technical schools.

In general, today’s women have fewer children than before. In 1950, a Swiss woman statistically had 2.4 children. In 2011, this ratio was only 1.42. The birth rate reached its lowest point in 2001, with just 1.38 children.

In Switzerland, the life expectancy of women is 85.3 years and that of men is 81.5 years.

33.8 percent of companies established in Switzerland have at least one woman.

Today, men also have fighting days. Since 1999, 19 November has been International Men’s Day. The aim of this document, supported by the United Nations, is to “achieve greater gender balance”, improve the health of men and boys, and highlight the disadvantages faced by men and boys. It is celebrated in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Australia, India, USA, Singapore, Malta, South Africa, Hungary, Ireland, Ghana, Austria, Canada, Denmark and Liechtenstein.

International Men’s Day on November 3, a day of action for men’s health (patron: Mikhail Gorbachev), first took place in Vienna in 2000. It is wanted to draw attention to the fact that men live an average of seven years less than women.

Source : Blick