In 1968 Andrée Valentin outraged the old women’s suffrage movement with an incendiary speech in the Zurich Schauspielhaus. Today the 76-year-old realizes that there is still no equality in Switzerland.
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In 1968 Andrée Valentin founded the women’s liberation movement (FBB) together with other young Swiss women. Her goal was, among other things, to obtain women’s voting rights in Switzerland.
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The older women who met their husbands at the Zurich Schauspielhaus on November 10, 1968, are satisfied with themselves. The Tonhalle orchestra is playing, and a member of the government congratulates on the stage: the Zurich women’s suffrage association has been in existence for 75 years. Sure, we haven’t yet achieved what the association was founded for all those years ago – women’s right to vote and vote at national and cantonal level. Nevertheless, one should be proud, the ladies say, and the councilor certifies. But the joy is suddenly interrupted.
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