Granting women the right to vote far too late.
At the federal level in Switzerland, women only gained the right to vote in 1971, strikingly late for a Western democracy. Even more remarkably, the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden continued to bar women from participating in local elections until 1990, when the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland finally intervened and forced the change. Today, many Swiss regard this long delay as one of the more uncomfortable chapters in the country’s modern history.