ideal way is, of course, that you reported as a correspondent on subjects of interest, but not directly affect. As a speaker from the Off, the serene, distant and well-informed comments, do what the people in this distant Land. Vulnerable to actually just, if a number is incorrectly researched.

in the Middle of the cultural conflict

In this case, it is a little different. I’m not on the edge of the field, but in the middle of it, and the topic doesn’t interest me, it makes me perplexed. On some evenings in the circle of friends, or with colleagues, I have the idea of easy; let’s not talk about that now, it was just actually quite nice. When I started to discuss, there was more to what was described by the American sociologist Jonathan Turner as a “cultural conflict”.

The thing is: I don’t understand how one of the most most countries of the world in matters of equality is still an emerging country-level can remain. A hard judgment, can you find? I start with the subjective truth: That a woman working full time in Switzerland is so unusual that I almost asked in every interview, whether I would work 100 percent. The answer brought me in a appreciative, but also irritated glances. I have asked my colleagues from the FAZ, how often he has responded to its workload. The answer (never) surprised you are now probably just as little as me.

Further in the Text. Yeah, when I took the position in Zurich, I was 27 years old, is rather young. Since then, I have not experienced, however, some male colleagues in correspondent jobs, were older than I was. However, they are pushed to the unbelieving amazement, the first given to me at almost every appointment met. “May I ask how you arrived at this age in this Position?” – To this question I answered about three times a week, said well-behaved, where I studied, how long have I been trained in the “süddeutsche Zeitung”, that I have a Swiss passport and me for this Land of interest. Sometimes that was enough. Not infrequently I was left with the feeling that my counterpart is not found anyway, the go, a young woman in a somewhat important Position. My colleagues in Paris, Hamburg or Stockholm it was different.

father time? The economy of the enemy!

If I told of Switzerland, there were always these stories that sound in foreign countries simply incredible. For example, as the national Council of 2017, has rejected a Parental leave for fathers as a radical, anti-business measure. It was a matter of two weeks. At birth for Swiss men is more accurately a day of vacation. The calls from Munich, if I would have had days and months of confusion, gave me the feeling, to mediate in a cultural conflict. Only I could muster this Time little sympathy for the Swiss side. There was a similar situation to me, as I have researched on the case Of Jolanda Spiess-Hegglin and Markus Hürlimann and me through thousands of misogynistic headlines had to fight.

Charlotte Theile lived for four years in Zurich. Photo: Urs Jaudas

That a woman who expresses the suspicion, was mocked to be with K. o.-drops-raped and drugged has been, with lines like “Jolanda Heggli shows your best device”, found in Switzerland, hardly anyone is particularly objectionable. Even the most enlightened journalists colleagues were disturbed especially to Jolanda Spiess, found it kind of exhausting. The sexism might be, it was only with several years of delay clear. Today, Jolanda Spiess in talk, will be invited to shows and as a media expert quoted. That could repeat their history, by contrast, is every woman aware. The risk not to be taken seriously, if you go with such a suspicion to the police, is so high that you can recommend it to Victims.

That sports has been reviled presenter Steffi Buchli, the went to work relatively soon after the birth of a child (80 percent), of spectators, was, however, hardly more than a side note.

South Africa Switzerland

The list could go on. The Glass Ceiling Index, the British “Economist” out there, Switzerland is almost in the last place, in terms of dealing with female workers. To work In Hungary, Portugal, Greece, or new Zealand, is for women more enjoyable. In other comparative studies, such as the Global Gap Index by the world economic forum, competes, Switzerland, Bolivia, Barbados and South Africa to the middle ranks. Yes, that is a fact.

As I studied ten years ago in Bern, had been reminded of my study friends from Finland and Sweden before their mothers insistently, not a Swiss friend from the semester abroad and bring it back. Otherwise, it would be with your self-directed life is over, warned the mothers. The girl kept in mind. Just like some German Friends of mine in Switzerland before the family planning again left the “luxury” to be able to the child care equally with her husband organize, they wanted to let not take. (In Germany, where in terms of equality is also a lot to do, to parents since 2007, fourteen months of parental time – but to only spend, if the mother and father each have at least two months at home.) The question of whether her daughter in Switzerland should grow up, don’t answer with “prefer”.

best of luck, in spite of a doubt

There are some Swiss companies that have recognized this disadvantage of the location and its own measures. There are a lot of great young and older Swiss women, Swiss women are more than just part-time and well-paid husbands. All I press the thumb. In the next twenty, thirty years, something really changes, I still have my doubts.

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Created: 22.02.2019, 23:20 PM