It aimed for a professionalization of women's work, which they traditionally saw in housework, health care and gardening.
[2] It aimed to first educate the women and then also to find employment for them in order to make them useful members of the society.
[2] For this, it built a hospital and schools which first received cantonal subsidies and from 1895 onwards also from the state due a law on the education of the women.
[2] For the subsidies for their nursery school, the SGF reached an agreement with the Swiss army and the Red Cross according to which two thirds of the students would be involved in either of the two organization in the event of a war.
[3] The campaign was successful and in a widely publicized ceremony of 1916, the SGF gave the Federal Council the sum of 1 Million Swiss Francs.