As only the fifth female member of the ICRC's governing body Bordier helped to pave the way towards gender equality in the organisation which itself has historically been a pioneer of international humanitarian law.

[1] During the Second World War she was an outspoken advocate inside the ICRC leadership to publicly denounce the Holocaust by Nazi Germany through its system of extermination and concentration camps, though in vain.

[1] Their forefather Guillaume Bordier, a French protestant, originated from the Orléans region and fled in 1541 to the Calvinist republic of Geneva due to the religious persecution which arose in France after the 1534 Affair of the Placards.

Her brothers Guillaume (1901-1982), Jacques (1903-1981) and Raymond (1906-1974) joined Bordier & Cie as partners, while her sister Marie (1908-1990) became the wife of a pastor in Jussy.

[12] 75 years after the founding of the ICRC, Bordier became only its fifth-ever female member after the historian and legal scholar Renée-Marguerite Cramer (1887-1963), who was elected in 1918 and succeeded in 1922 by the nurse and suffragette Pauline Chaponnière-Chaix (1850-1934).

[1][13] By autumn of 1942, the ICRC leadership received information about the systematic extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany in Eastern Europe, the so-called Final Solution.

While the then leadership of the ICRC was later sharply criticized for not publicly denouncing Nazi Germany, Bordier all the more made her distinct contribution to what the Nobel Committee credited the ICRC with, i.e.«the great work it has performed during the war on behalf of humanity.»In 1945, Bordier was elected as president of the Association du Bon Secours, where she had graduated as a nurse two decades earlier.

The leadership of the organisation praised her achievements in a text published by the Revue Internationale de la Croix-Rouge:«With modesty and a lot of patience, the energetic and persevering Miss Bordier devoted herself entirely to the accomplishment of the duties she had assumed, reviving by her action the hope in the hearts of those she was helping.» [13]While Bordier's elder brother Guillaume was appointed to become an ICRC member in 1955 (and ICRC vice-president in 1966/67),[15] little has been published about her later activities which focused on local child welfare.

[16] Bordier hosted Mościcka in her estate at Chemin des Colombiere 12 in Versoix until the death of the destitute exile[17] and became her testamentary executor.

[19] Bordier and her sister Marie donated their estate in Versoix in the early 1980s to the canton of Geneva under the unalienable condition that it would be used for child welfare.