She was the president of the all-Russian public organization "Knowledge" Society of Russia, a candidate of political sciences, a professor, and the head of the Department of Gender Studies (theory of "women's equality and leadership") of the Russian State University for the Humanities.

However, she did not use these directions and in 1967 she entered the Kharkiv Aviation Institute, which she graduated in 1973 with a degree in mechanical engineering in aircraft construction.

[5] As the secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, Shvetsova was engaged not only in working with children's and youth organizations, pedagogical associations, but also oversaw the activities of the All-Union Student Construction Team (VSSO) and participated in solving the problems of the newly emerging, similar to the VSSO, KMSO units of the Youth Residential Complex movement.

In April 1994, Shvetsova was appointed head of the Department of Public and Interregional Relations of the Moscow City Government, led by Yury Luzhkov.

Shvetsova completed her postgraduate studies at the Russian State Social University, in 1997 and defended her dissertation “Integration of Women into Politics.

On 21 January 2000, Luzhkov appointed Shvetsova to the post of the first deputy mayor of Moscow, as the head of the social sphere complex.

In October of the same year, the United Russia party presented the head of state with a list of candidates for the post of mayor of Moscow, which included Sergey Sobyanin, Igor Levitin, Valery Shantsev and Shvetsova herself.

In the same month, a new government was formed, in which Shvetsova continued to fulfill the duties of responsible for the social block, but already in the post of deputy mayor of Moscow.

On 12 December 2011, Shvetsova and First Deputy Mayor of Moscow Vladimir Resin were dismissed in connection with their transfer to work in the State Duma.

[9] Shvetsova was the President of the Association of Researchers of Child Movement since 1991, and was a member of the executive committee of the International Women's Forum.

He is the author of numerous publications in newspapers and magazines on the problems of children, youth, women's movement, social policy.