Emilie Gourd

[1] In 1912, Gourd founded Le mouvement féministe (English: The Feminist Movement), a newspaper that promoted women's suffrage, education and legal rights.

[3] Gourd was the president of numerous feminist organisations and clubs,[3] including the Schweizerischer Verband für Frauenstimmrecht (English: Swiss Women's Association), where she served as president and fought for women's right to vote in Switzerland from 1914 until 1928.

She published a biography of American suffragist Susan B. Anthony and edited a yearbook of Swiss women.

[2] Gourd died in 1946, fourteen years before women in the canton of Geneva received the right to vote.

Since 2012, the Emilie Gourd foundation has created an online platform Actuelles.ch acting as a feminist content curation proposing news and articles from other medias in Switzerland.

Emilie Gourd
Emilie Gourd during her visit at the IKC ("Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny") newspaper headquarters in Kraków , Poland. Emilie Gourd (on the left) and the IKC editor Zofia Lewakowska (on the right); 1935.