Switzerland. Canton Ticino. Lugano. Piazza della Riforma. Women's strike. Teens with banners. Girls masturbate too, boys cry to. A teenager hold a cardboard with an universal symbol for equality. Women across Switzerland have been taking to the streets in a historic strike demanding equal treatment and conditions compared with their male counterparts. The protests organised by trade unions come almost three decades after a 1991 strike, when women demanded that a constitutional article on equality of the sexes be translated into concrete legislation. Many women – and men, who are in support of the movement – are wearing fuchsia purple clothing which is the symbolic color of the event. A gender symbol is a pictogram or glyph used to represent either biological sex or sociological gender. Mars symbol is used for a male organism or man. Venus symbol is used for a female organism or woman. The Piazza della Reforma is Lugano’s main square. 14.06.2019 © 2019 Didier Ruef