Women's vote - 50 years of women's suffrage in Bern

The introduction of women's suffrage in the city and canton of Bern was preceded by a decades-long struggle. What seems self-evident today was fought for hard back then. Much has changed, but some things have remained the same. We take stock of the progress made in terms of equal rights.

On 22 August 1968, Bern's city parliament decided to introduce women's voting rights. What seems self-evident today was hard-won at the time. The election of Ruth Im Obersteg Geiser as the first woman in Bern's city government and thus the first female director of public works in Switzerland, the influence of the female population on political events, the tenacity of Marie Boehlen, who later became a member of the city council, in the fight for women's suffrage, the extra-parliamentary commitment such as that in the women's room at the Reitschule: these and other stories are used to tell the story of 50 years of women's suffrage and the associated women's history in Bern on the tour from the Bundeshaus to Länggasse. Much has changed, some things have not remained the same.