Women’s Freemasonry

The GLSA is an exclusively male obedience, as is the case for all other regular Grand Lodges throughout the world.

Women wishing to practice the Royal Art have the possibility of joining exclusively female Masonic obediences.

Women’s lodges are ancient, going back more than a hundred years in some countries such as England and France. They now have a full place in the Masonic landscape.

In Switzerland, the first women’s lodge, ” Lutèce ” was created in 1964 in Geneva and today, the Grand Lodge for Women in Switzerland (GLFS) has 18 lodges and more than 400 members working in French, German and Italian.

Noting that the emancipation of women is no longer only a legislative and political struggle, but also a cultural and spiritual one, the GLFS proposes an initiatory quest with the aim of working towards the moral, intellectual and spiritual perfection of humanity.

The GLSF emphasizes that women’s masonry was not created against men, but for women, and with this aim shared with the male obediences of building, through symbolic work and initiatory transmission, greater harmony in human relations and the fullness of being.

The GLSA and GLFS maintain a regular and harmonious dialogue between the governing bodies of both obediences.
Convinced that these exchanges can only be beneficial to Freemasonry and to the common objectives between the GLFS and the GLSA, the latter encourages contacts between lodges of the two obediences around discussions and work outside of ritual.

For more information on the Grand Lodge for Women in Switzerland: www.glfs-masonic.ch