Women’s voting rights – NO

About this poster

With this design, the famous Basel poster designer Donald Brun took up a central argument against women's suffrage in 1946: the fear that children would be neglected. The poster was created in the context of the June 1946 referendum on the introduction of women's suffrage at cantonal level in Basel-Stadt – it was to be rejected for the third time since 1920. Twenty years later, in 1966 and at the fifth attempt, Basel-Stadt became the first canton in German-speaking Switzerland to introduce women's suffrage.

Artist: Donald Brun