Federal Act on Gender Equality

¹The Fed­er­al Of­fice for Gender Equal­ity pro­motes the equal­ity of wo­men and men in all areas of life and is com­mit­ted to elim­in­at­ing any form of dir­ect or in­dir­ect dis­crim­in­a­tion.

²For this pur­pose, it car­ries out the fol­low­ing tasks:

a.

it provides the gen­er­al pub­lic with in­form­a­tion;

b.

it ad­vises au­thor­it­ies and private in­di­vidu­als;

c.

it con­ducts stud­ies and re­com­mends suit­able meas­ures to au­thor­it­ies and private in­di­vidu­als;

d.

it may par­ti­cip­ate in pro­jects of na­tion­al im­port­ance;

e.

it par­ti­cip­ates in the draft­ing of fed­er­al le­gis­la­tion in the event that such le­gis­la­tion is rel­ev­ant to gender equal­ity;

f.

it ex­am­ines ap­plic­a­tions for fin­an­cial aid in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 14 and 15 and su­per­vises the im­ple­ment­a­tion of pro­mo­tion­al pro­grammes.