NPR: Swiss women strike for equality

NPR affiliate KCUR reports that women across Switzerland have gone on strike under the banner "Wages. Time. Respect."

Organizers say the strike has been motivated by the country's exceedingly poor track record on gender equality -- women make, on average, 20% less than men and in some cantons were only given the right to vote in 1991.

Along with the demand for equal pay for equal work, women are demanding and end to discrimination and sexual harassment. They also want changes to societal and legal pressures that force women to make hard choices in order to keep their family afloat such as the high cost of child care that often means women have to stay home.