{"id":7180,"date":"2026-02-16T06:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2026-02-16T06:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:56:13","slug":"could-tax-reform-bring-thousands-of-women-into-the-swiss-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/16\/could-tax-reform-bring-thousands-of-women-into-the-swiss-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Could tax reform bring thousands of women into the Swiss workforce?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Switzerland is considering a shift to individual taxation from joint taxation, which currently disincentivizes many married women from working or increasing their hours. Reforming Switzerland&#8217;s taxation system to allow for individual taxation could significantly boost female workforce participation. Currently, the tax burden on second earners often women discourages them from working full-time or entering the labor market. Studies suggest this reform could add between 12,000 and 20,000 full-time equivalent jobs to the economy as more women enter the workforce or transition from part-time to full-time roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 2, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/best-of-srg-content\/could-tax-reform-bring-thousands-of-women-into-the-swiss-workforce\/90841307\">swissinfo.ch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland is considering a shift to individual taxation from joint taxation, which currently disincentivizes many married women from working or increasing their hours. Reforming Switzerland&#8217;s taxation system to allow for individual taxation could significantly boost female workforce participation. Currently, the tax burden on second earners often women discourages them from working full-time or entering the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":7182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7371,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions\/7371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}