Swiss feminist dies at 107

(AP) -- Jenny Humbert-Droz, one of Switzerland's first feminists and communists, has died, newspapers in the Swiss town of Neuchâtel reported Thursday. She was 107.

(AP) — Jenny Humbert-Droz, one of Switzerland’s first feminists and communists, has died, newspapers in the Swiss town of Neuchâtel reported Thursday. She was 107.

Humbert-Droz died Tuesday at a nursing home in Malvilliers, the Neuchâtel daily L’Express said. The cause of death was not given.

Born in August 1892, she married Jules Humbert-Droz, who was one of the founders of Switzerland’s Communist Party, in 1916.

Lenin named her husband as a secretary of the Moscow-based Communist International, or Comintern, and in the 1920s Humbert-Droz worked for the organization as a translator.

The couple returned to Switzerland in 1928 after falling out of favor under Stalin.

After the war, they rejoined the mainstream Social Democratic Party, and Jenny Humbert-Droz headed a socialist women’s section in Zurich.

She campaigned for greater representation of women in politics and backed women’s rights organizations. After her husband’s death in 1971, she edited his memoirs and wrote her own book, entitled “One thought, one conscience, one battle.”