Switzerland has a high quality of life but lags other developed economies in women's pay and equality.
Thousands of women in Switzerland have taken part in a mass scream at a protest to demand equal treatment and an end to domestic violence.
During the Women's Strike, they screamed for 60 seconds at 3.24pm - the time of day when women technically start working for free because of the wage gap.Image:Coronavirus restrictions meant there was a lower turnout than last year, when 500,000 people marched to highlight the nation's poor record on women's rights.
Roxanne Errico, a 19-year-old student in Geneva who said her mother was killed by her violent partner, said her screams were not only for herself:"I also scream for my sisters and brothers."I scream for all the other children who lost a mother or a father, and I also scream for my mother, who would have screamed if she was still here."
Another Geneva resident, Rose-Angela Gramoni, said she had not missed an annual strike since they started in 1991.
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