Pearl Grobet-Secretan

Pearl Grobet-Secrétan (née Secrétan; 28 December 1904 – 28 December 1988) was a Swiss suffragist. After spending some time in the United States, she began campaigning for woman's suffrage in Switzerland, eventually culminating in the successful 1971 Swiss women's suffrage referendum. She also campaigned for family planning and the abolition of apartheid and was a United Nations delegate for the International Federation for Human Rights and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Biography

Pearl Secrétan was born in London on 28 December 1904. Her mother Laura Clarke was a native of Naples, New York,

She was educated at the University of London, where she learned about the women's political rights movement and obtained her degree in letters in 1922. Grobet-Secrétan died in Geneva on 26 March 1988.