career / Katia Murmann /

What WorXX: Why Women with Children Should Pursue Their Careers Even More

In her latest column, Katia Murmann writes about how the working world is becoming more mother-friendly – and why this urgently needs to happen.

career / Katia Murmann /

Number of the week

82%
of mothers in Switzerland are employed.
Federal Office of Statistics, 2022
career / Ursula Keller /

Sexism in science: How progress is slowed down and taxpayers' money is wasted

The award-winning physicist Ursula Keller, together with other female scientists, has investigated structural sexism in education and research. Her findings are shocking. A guest article.

career / Ursula Keller /
society / Miriam Suter /

Unclean wages

Most of the cleaners in Switzerland have a migrant background, most of whom are women. Many of them work on low wages. One of them is Ursula. She does not want to leave, on the contrary: she wants to revolutionize the cleaning industry as a boss.

society / Miriam Suter /

On average, women have much less money than men. Why? Because inequality begins in childhood and continues throughout a woman's financial life. Our goal is to change that.

society / Gabriella Alvarez-Hummel /

Hunger is becoming more female

Women are mainly responsible for food and water procurement worldwide, but suffer more often from malnutrition and hunger. An interview with NGO Executive Director Sabine Maier about the alarming findings of a global nutrition report by six Swiss NGOs.

society / Gabriella Alvarez-Hummel /
finance / Samantha Taylor /

Everything you need to know about the second pillar

The pension fund is the second pillar of the Swiss pension system. In this article, we explain how the occupational pension plan works and what terms such as coordination deduction, retirement assets and conversion rate mean.

finance / Samantha Taylor /
career / Céline Meier /

Should women negotiate differently than men, Wies Bratby?

Wies Bratby is an expert in salary negotiations. She explains how she founded her company WIN - Women in Negotiation, why women are actually very good negotiators and what her most successful wage negotiation was.

career / Céline Meier /
career / ellexx /

ellexx Legal Protection Insurance: what it is and why you need it

It’s time for women in Switzerland to have a simple, accessible, digital solution to protect themselves in some of life’s toughest situations.

career / ellexx /
society / Agota Lavoyer /

What's more erotic than a yes?

Our columnist Agota Lavoyer explains that in order to criminalize all non-consensual sexual acts the law must say that only "yes means yes". It's the safe - and erotic - way forward to protect women.

society , / Agota Lavoyer /
career / Alexandra Dufresne /

Adieu, liebe Schweiz: a foreign feminist’s farewell letter to Switzerland

After six years, human rights lawyer and working mother Alexandra Dufresne is leaving Switzerland. But not before she shares an urgent call-to-action with all of us.

career / Alexandra Dufresne /
finance / Samantha Taylor /

What's the price of divorce, Miriam Küng?

Divorce is always about money. Miriam Küng is a lawyer and has fought many of these battles. How this affects her relationship with money and to what extent money can relieve pain, she shares in our Money Talk.

finance / Samantha Taylor /
career / Larisa Topalo /

Regula Bührer: Swiss companies can't afford to be silent about equality

The Swiss leader and co-founder of #FRAUENARBEIT talks candidly about career success, agency life, feminism, and wanting young women in Switzerland to succeed.

career , society / Larisa Topalo /
career / Nadine Jürgensen /

Advertiser of the year, did you deserve that as a man, David Schärer?

We ask men what usually only women are asked to start a dialogue about stereotypes, make people think and smile, and to expose toxicity. We want to address men on our platform and make them our ambassadors.

career / Nadine Jürgensen /
career / Nadine Jürgensen /

Are you a feminist, Bardhyl Coli?

We ask men what usually only women are asked. We want to start a dialogue about stereotypes, make people think and smile, but also expose toxicity. We want to address men on the platform and make them our ambassadors.

career / Nadine Jürgensen /
career / Patrizia Laeri /

Were you never afraid of being financially dependent on a woman, André Krause?

Sunrise boss André Krause was elected CEO by women, credits his daughter with better arithmetic skills than himself, and relies on his charisma.

career / Patrizia Laeri /

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