Women across Switzerland are preparing for a nationwide strike in protest against what they say is the country’s unacceptably slow pace to equality.
Friday’s protest comes 28 years after similar action saw half a million women take to the streets in 1991.
Swiss women have long campaigned to accelerate the pace of gender equality.
Nearly three decades ago, on June 14, 1991, about 500,000 Swiss women went on strike throughout the country, to denounce salary differences between them and men, urging equal pay, despite the fact that equality was enshrined in the Constitution in 1981.
