Lise Girardin

Lise Girardin (* February 15, 1921 in Geneva, † October 16, 2010 ibid ) was a Swiss politician (FDP).

Life

Lise Girardin, was born on February 15, 1921 in Geneva, the daughter of Alice and Ernest baud, a mathematics professor. 1943, she was awarded at the University of Geneva, the humanities licentiate, she taught after French, especially at the Séminaire de français modern Geneva University.

In 1961, shortly after the introduction of the cantonal women's suffrage, she was elected Council in Geneva Great, to which it belonged until 1973. In 1967 she was elected as the first woman in the Conseil administratif of Geneva and was in the years 1968, 1972 and 1975 Geneva City President. She was the first woman who held such an office in Switzerland. She remained a member of Geneva's city government until 1979.

After the introduction of women's suffrage at the national level in 1971 Girardin became the first woman in the catchment in the Senate, where she was employed until 1975. It was in 1971 also elected to the Board of Directors of the former Union Bank of Switzerland. She had held from 1984 to 1991, the chair of the Federal Commission for Foreigners, where she campaigned for naturalization facilitation, especially for the second-generation immigrants.

Girardin was active also for the democratization of education and study, the legalization of abortion, family law matters as well as the equality of man and woman. In 1992, she campaigned for Switzerland's accession to the European Economic Area.