...Michael Nollert; Martin Gasser The purpose of this paper is to focus first on the development of the segregation of tasks in family and housework in Switzerland and its linkage to the gender time-use gap in unpaid work. In addition, the impact of dual-breadwinner support in policies...

...Marina Hennig; Marina Hennig; Stefan Stuth; Mareike Ebach; Anna Erika Hägglund Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how employed women perceive the reconciliation of work and family life in Denmark, Germany, France, Finland, Great Britain, Sweden and Switzerland. The paper seeks...

... 2009 Switzerland Employment Government policy In this paper, our objective is to assess the impact of integrated employment policies against Amartya Sen's capability approach. This approach insists that public policies should enhance their beneficiaries' real freedom to choose...

.../methodology/approach This issue is examined through the design of a theoretical and normative typology, which is then applied to the case of active labour market policies in Switzerland, based on an in‐depth empirical investigation (more than 50 interviews with field actors). Findings The emergence...

...Béatrice Ziegler States that Switzerland is still far from gender‐equality at university. Highlights that it is only recently that the Federal government has set the goal of doubling the percentage of women in the ranks of professors from 5.7 per cent to over 10 per cent. Describes the actual...

...Isidor Wallimann The author is interested in variations by age in women's attitudes to the military and defence and support for women's participation in the military. Analysis of public opinion data suggests that women in Switzerland have substantial and consistently non‐militaristic leanings which...