Chapter 1 Introduction Switzerland as a straggler in relation to gender equality An exploratory interview As if I had made a journey back in time Cooking and sewing courses for girls, geometry for boys Unequal opportunities at school Bring to the fore not only personal, but also structural conditions Chapter 2 Conceptual clarifications Gender innovation The intersection of discrimination and privileges and new reconfigurations A 'migrantisation' of the past The relationship between spatial and social change Migration and mobility A unified analysis of migration Chapter 3 Changing gendered divisions of work Nurses from Kerala A sedentary bias in the history of emigration Colonial constellations Chapter 4 Nurseries The first nurseries The so-called boom years There is never a single story Migration and the development of nurseries The normalising effect of an infrastructure The current situation Male staff members with a so-called 'migrant background' Chapter 5 Higher education Switzerland as a pioneer - and what lies behind it The oft-omitted impact of these 'foreign' students Feminist forerunners are not unequivocal heroines of history The first female full professor in Switzerland - born in the Russian empire The first extraordinara in Romandie - born in the Russian empire The first extraordinara in German-speaking Switzerland - again born in... Chapter 6 Female suffrage Female suffrage in Switzerland and its relation to migration The first formal association promoting political and legal equality for women Migrating political strategies The last stragglers An indirect experience of migration Not downplaying the effects of racism Women's right to vote in cultural memory Unseen democratic deficits in the supposed heartland of democracy A new Swiss export article: instruction in democracy 1929: Fighting women in Nigeria and Switzerland Chapter 7 Conclusion: An awareness of alternatives Equal rights presented as being endangered by migration Migration and the creation of new ideas and practices Changing the perspective under which our past is told and our future imagined Skryť popis