Career
She was the editor of the women"s paper Schweizer Frauenblatt in 1943–1945. She was a feminist, inspired by Simone de Beauvoir. She is most known for her feminist work Frauen im Laufgitter: the book received such a massive negative critic and hostility that she was blamed for the fact that the proposal of women suffrage was voted down in 1959.
She left Switzerland as a result of the backlash against her.