Margarita Schwarz-Gagg

Margarita Schwarz-Gagg (born December 19, 1899 in Konstanz , † December 10, 1989 in Bern , resident in Villigen and Rüfenach ), ref., Is considered the mother of the Swiss maternity insurance.

Life

Margarita Gagg was the daughter of Gustav Gagg and Gertrud nee Leiner. She was one of the first Swiss women to study political science and received her doctorate in 1924 as the second national economist in Bern. In 1928 she married the statistician Arnold Schwarz and raised three sons.

job

Margarita Schwarz-Gagg was one of the few women who were able to get involved in national political life, even though Swiss women at that time did not yet have the right to vote . She was involved in the commissions of the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations (BSF) and ported by the BSF, she was the first and for a long time the only woman member of the Federal Factory Commission from 1931 to 1965. She worked in various federal expert commissions on social legislation: Expert commission for examining questions relating to the federal system of family allowances, expert commission for the general ordinance of the labor law. From 1945 to 1960, Schwarz-Gagg was a member of the Swiss government delegation to international labor conferences . 1955–67 she headed the central office of the Swiss Association for Home Work. Schwarz-Gagg sat on the AHV commission and helped to revise the health insurance. In particular, she was committed to maternity insurance as early as the 1930s. Compulsory maternity insurance was only introduced after her death on January 1, 2005.

Margarita Schwarz-Gagg was a member of the Swiss academics.

Honors

• Adelaide Ristori Prize (Centro Culturale Italiano)

Works

• Nature and tasks of worker protection. Dissertation Bern 1925.
• Female home work in Switzerland. General report on the homework quete 1925, organized by the Swiss Social Buyers' League. [Bern] 1927
• The woman in Swiss industry, Zurich 1928.
• Modern home work in the canton of Thurgau. Experiences from the homework quête in the canton of Thurgau in 1925, Frauenfeld in 1930
• Legal measures for the economic protection of the family in Switzerland, ed. from the Swiss Association for Social Policy, [Sl]: [sn], 1931
• The latest insights into women's employment in Switzerland [Part 1–3], in: Schweizerische Lehrerinnen-Zeitung, 37/16, 37/17 and 37/18 (1932–1933).
• The necessity of female gainful employment for Switzerland, in: Zentralblatt des Schweizerischen Gemeinnützigen Frauenverein, vol. 21 (1933), 4; Pp. 94-102.
• One more year of childhood by raising the minimum entry age to 15 years of age (on the question of the 9th school year ..., raising the school entry age ...), a contribution to the fight against unemployment. Edited by Dora Schmidt, Margarita Gagg and others; (Schw. Vereinigung für Sozialpolitik; final report of the working committee "The school-leavers in employment", submitted in autumn 1935), Zurich 1936.
• Expansion of maternity insurance in Switzerland - a study on the revision of health insurance. edit on behalf of the Swiss Association for Social Policy, 1938
• Special protection for young people and female workers, [Sl]: [sn], 1966.
• The regulation of maternity protection in labor law and in social insurance, in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Sozialversicherung, 1967/18 11 (1967), pp. 18–37

Literature, estate and sources

• Regula Ludi: Schwarz-Gagg, Margaritha. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Gosteli Foundation Worblaufen, Schwarz-Gagg estate, Margarita
• St. Gallen State Archives, Margarita Schwarz-Gagg estate
• Uni Basel - Economics UB - SWA
• Franziska Rogger: Doctoral hat in the broom cupboard. The adventurous life of the first female students - using the example of the University of Bern , Bern 1999/2002.
• He and She, January 28, 1954
• Der Bund, Bern, December 18, 1989

Web links

• Schwarz-Gagg, Margarita , on the History of Social Security in Switzerland website