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Timeline on women’s suffrage in Switzerland

In 1868, anonymous women from Zurich dared to take a bold move: They demanded a political say at cantonal level. It would take more than a hundred years before she and the other Swiss women finally received the right to vote.

In 1868 the women of Zurich officially demanded women’s suffrage for the first time.

Illustration Anja Lemcke

In his writing “The right of women asks the Zurich liberal Johann Jakob Leuthy in 1833: «Does man have the right to be free? Are women people too? Do they therefore have an equal right to be free? Anyone who has only grasped the first foundations of thought will surely come to the right conclusion. ”

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