Sono lieto che il signor Pfister sia contrario. Dopotutto dovremmo mirare a renderlo volontario per tutti e non un obbligo solo per gli uomini. È già difficile tornare al lavoro dopo la gravidanza, quindi ciò potrebbe causare ancora più problemi.
https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/service-citoyen-initiative-bundesrat-sagt-nein-zum-buergerdienst-fuer-alle
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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.