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Switzerland discriminating against men on pension benefits, ECHR finds
- pyuser583 4y agoAnd apparently the ECHR had no problem with Switzerland denying women the right to vote … so WTF?
- CodeSgt 4y agoWomen have been able to vote in Switzerland for, what, 30 years now? A bit behind a lot of other countries for sure, but let's not act like that has or should have any bearing on this subject of this post.
- woodruffw 4y agoI think the GP's comment is meant to preempt the normal HN comment chum on these topics, i.e. the tendency for HN to go out of its way to claim reactionary sex-based discrimination against men. Given that Switzerland has had universal suffrage for barely longer than I've been alive, it's hard to make that claim about them. (This instead seems to be good old-fashioned sex-based discrimination, like the draft in the US.)
- pyuser583 4y agoThe fact that Swiss women didn’t vote until (relatively) recently is not important. The fact that the were subject to ECHR jurisdiction is. The ECHR has immense respect for countries political processes, and allows all sorts of nasty laws (gay marriage bans, etc). My point is that this sort of micromanagement does not seem consistent with the ECHRs usual hands-off approach.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoECHR, petitions, suggestions boxes, Reddit, #TeamTrees, and most forms of protesting: zero-impact.
- rayiner 4y agoThat’s typical for courts in Europe. For example, I don’t think any EU country legalized same-sex marriage by court order. I’m also not aware of any European country where abortion was legalized by court ruling. The US Supreme Court is unusual in running roughshod over the political process as much as it does.
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- rayiner 4y agoYou’ve got it backward. European courts have been more respectful of the democratic process when it comes to social laws than Republican-majority Supreme Courts in the US. 5 of the 7 Justices in the Roe majority were Republicans.
- mwint 4y agoRespectful of the democratic process? I get opposing the Roe reversal, but Roe wasn’t created by the democratic process any more than it was just overturned by it. And the democratic process could pass Roe as law tomorrow, if it so chose.
- tbrownaw 4y agoI think that's the point? The comment you're replying to seems to be saying that the US supreme court has been disrespecting the democratic process for quite a while, so blaming it on the current makeup doesn't really fit.
- pyuser583 4y agoWhy doesn’t that restraint apply in this situation?
- calvinmorrison 4y ago1971 it's burned into my brain
- CodeSgt 4y agoSo even longer! I was under the impression, for whatever reason, that it happened in the 90's. Looks like 50 years would have been closer to the mark.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoSome local elections didn't allow women until the 90s, but universal suffrage for national elections was a few decades earlier
- SamReidHughes 4y agoI would assume that's because they never ratified the first protocol, so Article 14 wouldn't apply to elections.
- pyuser583 4y agoThank you!
- Rebelgecko 4y agoSwitzerland also recently stopped using gender as a factor in determining retirement age
- mc32 4y agoThis is about whether a pensioner is a widow or widower -where a widow gets her pension for life in the event of the husband's death, but a widower only receives it if they have children under 18 and stop receiving it once their children become adults.
- danielfoster 4y agoNote the word “also” in the original comment.
- ruuda 4y agoHow recently? I remember there was a referendum to make the age equal in 2017 or 2018, but the proposal was rejected at the time.
- delroth 4y agoLast month. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/pension-reform-vote-targets-raising-women-s-retirement-age/47902622 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/pension-reform-vote-targets-rai...
- bearmode 4y agoLots of countries are discriminating against men - just look as the discrepancy between maternity and paternity leave.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y agoI was HORRIFIED when I discovered that in Italy, fathers get 4 days of PTO (recently doubled, up from TWO), compared to 1 (or 2,can't remember) months for the mother. Of course there is a difference in physical impact, but 4 days versus 30 feels like a joke. I'm glad I moved to a different country before having children. As a dad, I wanted to stay with my children as much as possible, especially as soon as they were born. I was seriously sleep deprived (2 hours per week sleep deprived) for almost 1 month, until we figured out a few tricks. This law reminds me of that. All these laws should be realigned.