Federation of Swiss women against women's suffrage

[5] The committee of Swiss women held several reunions ahead of the referendum of 1959 to discuss campaign tactics.

[5] To those reunions also attended National Councillor (MP) Karl Hackhofer from the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP).

[6] For the national referendum on women's suffrage in 1959, the Social Democratic Party (SP) and the Alliance of Independents both supported the yes campaign.

[2][7] Only the three French speaking cantons, Vaud, Neuchâtel and Geneva approved women's suffrage in the referendum in 1959.

[10] In 1968, Gertrud Haldimann acknowledged that in all cantonal branches, there were only a few active members and it has been difficult to recruit new ones from the start.

[3] The few interested ones were deemed overly educated, and therefore incapable to represent the needs of the average Swiss woman.