Women's Committee Bern
The Bern Women's Committee was an association of women from the Bernese elite formed in 1893 . In particular, the wives of national councils and councils of states as well as the upper classes were concerned. Thanks to its influence in federal politics, the Women's Committee was soon consulted regularly by the Federal Council and Parliament as experts when it came to women's issues at the federal level.
The women's committee was also the nucleus for other progressive women's associations: the symphonic society, the school-friendly association, the Berna cantonal-Bernese women's association (today the rural women's association). All of these associations took on an important mediating role between non-profit status and women's emancipation.
Literature and archival material
- Archives of the Frauen-Comité Bern, AGoF 109 in the finding aids of the Gosteli Foundation, archive on the history of the Swiss women's movement