Well, it's only a decade or so ago that women got the vote in one of the Cantons. 30 years ago or so, when most of the rest of the civilised world was experiencing currrency inflation, the Swiss currency was increasing in value, partly because (unlike most other countries) they could "export their unemplyment"; all the Turkish gastarbeiters were at risk from the Swiss version of Enoch Powell.
We're so used to thinking of Swiss neutrality that we tend to forget they're really just like us.