Ich bin froh, dass Herr Pfister dagegen ist. Schließlich sollte es unser Ziel sein, dies für alle freiwillig und nicht nur für Männer zur Pflicht zu machen. Es ist bereits schwierig, nach der Schwangerschaft wieder in den Beruf zurückzukehren, was zu noch mehr Problemen führen könnte.
https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/service-citoyen-initiative-bundesrat-sagt-nein-zum-buergerdienst-fuer-alle
Von celebral_x
7 Kommentare
The reasoning with „women do more care work“ is ridiculous. It is a voluntary decision. The same with „women bear children which is also huge benefit to society and thus they should be exempt from military service“. What about all the women who don’t do care work or don’t have children? Or what about a man who has to be mother and father to his kids or care for sick relatives? Why is one exempt from the military and civil service and the other one isn’t for the same reason? This service cityoen initiative seems to be the best way to adress this injustice. Martin Pfister is completely wrong
I for one fully support this initiative. While I do understand that women still face discrimination in many aspects of life in practice (majority of unpaid care work, unexplainable wage gap, glass ceilings etc.), you do have to start somewhere to achieve true equality between men and women. As long as military service is only mandatory for one gender, opponents of equality will always have a very strong argument they can point to.
It’s insane how they can argue with „Forced labour“ laws against this, while at the same time defending conscription for men.
Well where I live the civil protection organisation has a chronic shortage of people and is continuously merging with other organisations to have enough people. Some politicians say civil protection should just suck up the people from civilian service. On the other hand you have the army complaining that too many people are going to civilian service. So to me there does seem to be a shortage of people and I wonder how that will work out with an aging population with more immigrants (who don’t have to do any service).
I understand the argument that with the initiative the number of people subject to duty would be extremely high, but I do think that including women would be a good idea.
I support this initiative 100%. It’s great for national cohesion. I’ve done my mandatory military service and I don’t regret it at all. Plus Switzerland being Switzerland, it’s probably be more fun than work tbh.
I’m gonna vote YES on this. It’s about time to end this discriminatory and sexist practice of only conscripting men.
Heck, maybe we should do a nationwide „Männerstreik“ and demand equal rights?
To anyone opposed to either making the service mandatory for everyone or abolishing it for everyone: So you’d also have it found justified if back in the day we would have said „no women’s voting rights, because they don’t do military service“? No? Then why are you still defending discrimination and sexism?
And no, you can’t use „but women are not fully equal yet, that’s why it’s justified to keep male-only conscription in place“ as an argument, because „two wrongs don’t make a right“!
Going on a limb here, but we should even abolish gender entries in IDs, government databases, etc.; because if everyone is supposed to be equal, then there is no justified reason whatsoever for the government to even know about the gender of a person. Would also solve the whole „gender entry / change (on paper) / number of options / etc.“ debate.
Why again do we care what the Bundesrat thinks? You are elected to execute the will of the people, not whatever you think is right. Just be quiet and do your job.