Swiss voters have decisively rejected a call to require women to do national service in the military, civil protection teams ...

GENEVA -- Swiss voters are casting ballots to decide whether women, like men, must do national service in the military, civil ...

Women across Switzerland are walking off the job, burning bras and staging other demonstrations to demand fairer pay, more equality and an end to sexual harassment and violence — the first such ...

Switzerland was right to reject drafting women because any society that has seen real war knows you don’t coerce women into ...

Some 84 percent of voters said no to a proposal to extend mandatory civic or military service to women, while around 79 ...

Women across Switzerland are on strike today in protest at the slow progress in tackling the gender pay gap and inequality. Women do ask for pay rises but they don't get them Equal pay day: women will ...

Sometimes Tatjana Haenni felt envious during her teenage years and her eyes would flit towards football’s traditional behemoths — Germany, France, Italy, Portugal or the Netherlands. “I was almost ...

Switzerland's Fabienne Humm celebrates scoring their side's second goal of the game during the Women's World Cup qualifying round group G soccer match between Switzerland and Wales, at the Letzigrund ...

Switzerland is known for its priceless Alpine views, renowned watchmakers, the world’s best chocolatiers and its established banking sector. But the country isn’t without a price tag; it is ...

In Switzerland, on June 14, all over the country, women went on strike. The quiet, peaceful and well-organized nation was overwhelmed by a purple wave of protesters demanding pay equality, the end of ...

“In 700 years of democracy,” rumbled Orson Welles in the film The Third Man, “the only thing the Swiss have invented is the cuckoo clock.” This gibe was not even correct: a German in the Black Forest ...

GENEVA — Women across Switzerland walked off the job, burned bras and blocked traffic Friday in a day of demonstrations to demand fairer pay, more equality and an end to sexual harassment and violence ...