Iva Cantoreggi

Iva Cantoreggi (14 February 1913 Paradiso - 19 June 2005 Lugano) was a journalist, and activist for women's suffrage. .

From 1954 to 1979, she headed the Swiss Telegraphic Agency. She also hosted a radio show for women from 1955 to 1973.

She was the first accredited journalist, from Ticino in Switzerland. She was actively involved in the fight for women's right to vote.

Career
Iva Cantoreggi studied at After attending the Lugano-Besso girls' college, and graduated in 1930 from the girls' vocational school in the city of Lugano, directed by Ines Bolla. She was hired in 1930 as secretary and stenographer at Gazzetta Ticinese, a daily newspaper then edited by Fulvio Bolla  .

She quickly made a name for herself as an editor. In 1938, she was admitted to the Association of Ticino Journalists. In 1949, she left the newspaper due to disagreements over women's suffrage.

From 1954 to 1979, she was responsible for the Lugano office of the Italian-language editorial staff of the Swiss Telegraph Agency. From 1955 to 1973, she was responsible, alongside Alma Bacciarini and Elsa Franconi-Poretti, for the weekly program Per la donna  or L'Ora della donna , broadcast by radio Monteceneri  .

She also wrote for the women's page of several periodicals, signing with her initials "IC" or the pseudonym "zia Carlotta".

From 1957 to 1973, she was vice-president, and from 1973 to 1976 was president of the Federazione Ticinese delle Società Femminili, which is the coordinating center of women's associations in Switzerland  . She was also an active member of the Ticino organizing committee of the second Swiss National Exhibition on Women's Work.

In 1957, Iva Cantoreggi, at the heart of the Ticino Federation of Women's Societies, proposed the construction of affordable housing for seniors  . Between 1959 and 1968, she was vice-president of the cooperative society “Casa per persone anziane” in Lugano, an initiative which took shape in 1972 in Lugano-Loreto and subsequently evolved into Residenza Emmy  .

She was also involved as a member and speaker at the Lyceum Club International of Lugano. She also encouraged the training of young women, for example by proposing the creation of a school for social workers  .

She was a member of the committee of the Alliance of Swiss Women's Societies (ASF), the Swiss National Commission for UNESCO, and the International Association of Journalists of the Women's and Family Press.