Switzerland Woman Voting Survey, 1946 (b/w photo)

Series for the questioning of women concerning the women's right to vote around 1946 - Frau Stuemp, manager of a Mercerie at the Universitaetsstrasse 77 in Zurich after the original legend: "I am for it! Two years ago I opened my own business out of social predicament. I needed my husband's consent to do that. If my husband had not given his consent, I would only have been able to defend myself by appealing to a court. We women have to pay taxes too. The shop must be full of books like a man's. We women have nothing to say in public life - but we often have the same amount to do in everyday life. What I'm afraid of is that women become extremely degenerate, unobjective on certain purely political issues and models." (