With the help of her daughters, the women managed to hold on to and maintain the family farm, but Gosteli recognized how inequality affected them[2] and joined the feminist movement in 1940.

[3] During World War II Gosteli worked for the Wartime Broadcasting Service of the army staff.

[2] Quickly the fight then turned toward other inequalities: the right to manage their own bank accounts, equal pay, maternal leave and other women's issues.

Cataloguing and adding the data to the information network of the German-Swiss archive Informationsverbund Deutschschweiz (IDS),[3] the collection grew into an extensive library, which includes historic and biographical material about pioneers and organizations.

[1] In 2008, Gosteli received the Silver Medal of Merit from the Economic and Charitable Society of Bern[7] and in 2011 she was granted the Swiss Human Rights Award.