WASHINGTON (AN) — One big similarity between the two countries where I'm a citizen – I was born in Palo Alto, California, where my Swiss parents lived at the time, but I mostly grew up in the Swiss capital, Bern – is a continuing clash between the far-left and the far-right.
Another is the tendency to hear liberal views in cities and conservative views in rural areas. One big difference, though, is how we view women leaders. Twelve days before America decides if it will have its first woman president, Switzerland's sixth woman president chaired a U.N. Security Council session about giving women a greater role in peacemaking.
