[1] Jeanne Eder-Schwyzer was the daughter of Dr. Fritz Schwyzer and grew up in New York.

She studied chemistry at the University of Zurich and was awarded her doctorate in 1919.

The following year, she married the chemist and Professor of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Robert Eder (1885-1944).

She was president of the women's group of the Swiss Enlightenment Service from 1947 to 1950, was a member (1949–1957) of the board of the Bund Schweizerischer Frauenvereine (BSF), and was sent by the BSF to the Swiss UNESCO Commission, from 1949 to 1954.

Eder-Schwyzer was President of the International Council of Women from 1947 until her death in 1957.