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Show Published by the International Federation of Business and Professional Women I Volume XL, No.2 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada MARCH-APRil, 1971 Swiss WOlllen Get Vote Women right of Switzerland were given the to vote in national elections in a referendum held on 7 February. The all male voters decided the issue in women's favor by a vote of 621,403 to 323,596. In the poll, 15% of Switzerland's can tons voted in favor and 6% opposed women's suffrage. 57 per cent of the country's male voters went to the pons. In a previous referendum held in 1959, the electorate voted overwhelmingly against giving women the vote 654,924 - Director, The National Gallery of Canada speak on "Women in the Arts in the Significant Seventies" at the IFBPW Con gress in Edmonton, Canada, on Thursday afternoon, 8 July. A dynamic personality will and one of the few to occupy such a women in the world post, Dr. Boggs has very much improved Canada's Gallery, has ex tended its services to the country at large and has created a good image for Cana dian art abroad. She has also led the way in offering fees to artists where their work is exhibited for lengthy periods of time. Canadian art is becoming better known abroad since the inception of the Gallery's international programme, which has seen, since 1968, Canadian art and artists in Europe, England, South America and Israel. votes to 323,306. Switzerland was the last of the' Euro deny women the vote. Swiss women have been able to vote in regional affairs in 10 of the country's 15 cantons and half-cantons, including all the French and Italian-speaking areas. In the February election, in the German speaking canton of Zug, considered a key test area for the proposal, the vote favored women's suffrage by a vote of 17,046 to 13,464. All political parties, both houses of the legislature, many organizations, in cluding the Business and Professional Women, newspapers, business firms and pean countries to. church leaders women's vote. came out in favolF of the |
