Lida Gustava Heymann was a German feminist, pacifist and women's rights activist.
Women in Switzerland gained the right to vote in federal elections after a referendum in February 1971. The first federal vote in which women were able to participate was the 31 October 1971 election of the Federal Assembly. However it was not until a 1990 decision by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland that women gained full voting rights in the final Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden.
Anita Theodora Johanna Sophie Augspurg was a German jurist, actress, writer, activist of the radical feminist movement and a pacifist.
Wilhelmine Theodore Marie Cauer, née Schelle, usually known as Minna Cauer was a German pedagogue, activist in the so-called "radical" wing of the German bourgeois feminist movement, pacifist and journalist. Alongside Anita Augspurg, Cauer was the most prominent figure in the radical feminist movement. In the 1890s she was the undisputed representative and had a special talent for winning over new and younger women to the feminist movement.
Antoinette Quinche (1896–1979) was a Swiss feminist and politician. She was president of the Schweizerische Aktionskomitee für Frauenstimmrecht from 1932 to 1959.
Marie Stritt was a German feminist and a leading force in the international and German women's suffrage movement. She helped worked towards woman's education and fought against state regulated prostitution. Stritt also worked for changes regarding divorce laws through the Woman's Legal Aid Society. She was a strong proponent of birth control and abortion.
Helene von Mülinen was a Swiss feminist who is regarded as the founder of the organised Swiss women's suffrage movement. She founded the Swiss women's suffrage movement, Bund Schweizerischer Frauenvereine (BSF), in 1900, and served as its first president between 1900 and 1904.
Emilie Gourd (1879–1946) was a Swiss feminist and journalist. She played a leading part within the Swiss women's suffrage movement. She was the president of one of the two leading Swiss suffrage unions, the Swiss Women's Association, during 1914–1928.
Gertrud Haldimann (1907–2001), was a Swiss opponent of women's suffrage in Switzerland.
Margarethe Faas-Hardegger was a Swiss women's rights activist, trade unionist and the leading figure of the Swiss women workers' movement at the beginning of the 20th century. Her leadership saw the Swiss women workers' movement gain a political and feminist profile. Faas-Hardegger made women's suffrage part of the Swiss trade unions' platform, as well as maternity insurance and the idea of paid housework.
alliance F is the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations.
Fourth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance was held from 15 - 21 June 1908, at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
FRAZ: Frauenzeitung was a feminist magazine published in Zurich, Switzerland, from 1976 to 2009. It was one of the early feminist publications in German-speaking countries and was the first feminist magazine in Switzerland.
Melitta Marxer was a Liechtensteiner activist who spent decades organizing and fighting for women's suffrage. She is most known for speaking at the Council of Europe in 1983 to gain international support for women's right to vote.
The women's liberation movement in Europe was a radical feminist movement that started in the late 1960s and continued through the 1970s and in some cases into the early 1980s. Inspired by developments in North America and triggered by the growing presence of women in the labour market, the movement soon gained momentum in Britain and the Scandinavian countries. In addition to improvements in working conditions and equal pay, liberationists fought for complete autonomy for women's bodies including their right to make their own decisions regarding contraception and abortion, and more independence in sexuality.
The Deutscher Verband für Frauenstimmrecht was a German women's organization for women's suffrage, active between 1902 and 1919. It was the first women's suffrage organisation in Germany and came to be one of the three most notable alongside Deutsche Vereinigung für Frauenstimmrecht (1911–1919) and Deutscher Frauenstimmrechtsbund (1913–1919). In 1916, it united with the Deutsche Vereinigung für Frauenstimmrecht and took the name Deutscher Reichsverband für Frauenstimmrecht. It was dissolved when women's suffrage was introduced in 1919.
Komitée für das Frauenstimmrecht, was a women's rights organization in Liechtenstein, founded in 1969. It was the first women's suffrage organization in Liechtenstein, and one of the main organizations working to introduce Women's suffrage in Liechtenstein.
Schweizerischer Verband für Frauenstimmrecht (SVF), was a women's organization in Switzerland, founded in 1909. It was one of the two main women's suffrage organisations in Switzerland, alongside the Bund Schweizerischer Frauenvereine (BSF).
Schweizerische Aktionskomitee für Frauenstimmrecht, was a women's organization in Switzerland, founded in 1945.
