How can it be that women in Switzerland were able to study law or medicine one hundred years before they were alowed to vote? This collection of essays and short biographies, written by over thirty Swiss experts on women´s history, sheds new light on the exceptionally long fight for women´s suffrage and other aspects of legal equality, in a country with complex political and judicial structures. The book is written for the anniversary of the organisation that started in 1909 as the Schweizerischer Verband fùr Frauenstimmrecht and changed its name in the Schweizerischer Verband fùr Frauenrechte in 1971, the year that Swiss women gained the active and passive right to vote. Short (4-7 page) biographies of: Helene von Mülinen, Pauline Chaponnière-Chaix, Auguste de Morsier, Emma Graf, Julie Merz-Schmid, Lucy Dutoit, Augusta Gillabert-Randin, Gertrud Woker, Emilie Gourd, Annie Leuch-Reineck, Georgine Gerhard, Elisabeth Vischer-Alioth, Dora Grob-Schmidt, Antoinette Quinche, Lotti Ruckstuhl-Thalmessinger, Emma Kammacher, Elisabeth Pletscher, Marie Boehlen, Mary Paravicini-Vogel, Gertrude Girard-Montet, Irmgard Rimondini-Schnitter, Iris und Peter von Roten-Meyer, Alma Bacciarini.