Editing Ruth Dreifuss (section)

== Career ==
After business education, Ruth worked as a secretary and social worker. Also, she was a journalist at ''Cooperation'' from 1961 to 1964. She joined the Socialist Party (SP) in 1964. Between 1972 and 1981, she was scientific expert at the Federal Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Also, Dreifuss elected Secretary of the Swiss Trade Union, where she dealt with matters related to social insurance, labor law and women's issues, until her election to the Federal Council in 1993.<ref>Skard, Torild (2014) "Ruth Dreifuss" in ''Women of power - half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide'', Bristol: Policy Press, {{ISBN|978-1-44731-578-0}}, pp. 405-6</ref>[[File:Ruth Dreifuss (1988) by Erling Mandelmann.jpg|thumb|left|1988]]

Dreifuss was a social-democratic member of the City of [[Bern]]'s Legislative Assembly from 1989 to 1992. She missed out the election to the [[National Council of Switzerland]] in 1991.

She is a member of the [[Council of Women World Leaders]], an International network of current and former female leaders whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development.