Women’s Day Slovenia
Women’s Right to Vote in Slovenia
August 11, (1945)
Number of female heads of state to date: 1
This past August 11 marked 75 years since now-dissolved Yugoslavia’s granted women the right to vote. Human rights activists and feminists from the successor states remembered the date by sharing photos from that period on social media — and used the opportunity to advocate for equal rights.
Universal suffrage was part of the political program of Yugoslavia’s communist-led resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and its allies. It became law in 1945 following Nazi defeat, and women voted for the first time in the November parliamentary election that solidified the power of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
Compared to other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia introduced universal suffrage a bit late — Russia did in 1917, Poland in 1918, and Czechoslovakia in 1920. Communist Bulgaria and Albania also granted women the right to vote after World War II, and anti-communist Greece only did so in 1952.
> globalvoices.org/netizens-across-former-yugoslavia-celebrate-75-years-of-womens-suffrage
October 17 in Slovenian History: Women Vote in Ljubljana for First Time
In 1910 the Carniolan provincial assembly adopted a new electoral law for municipal elections, under which many women were granted suffrage.
At the time Ljubljana was a stronghold of the elitist Liberal Party, with the Slovenian People’s Party in opposition. At the provincial level, Slovenian People’s Party won an absolute majority in 1908 and their municipal electoral reform meant an attack on the advantageous position Liberals’ enjoyed in Ljubljana.
Liberals, who were mostly supported by the wealthy voters, were fierce opponents of universal, equal and women’s suffrage. The Slovenian Catholic political camp in Carniola (liberals called them clericals) recognised women’s municipal suffrage in 1910, and not only for taxpayers and landowners, but also explicitly for teachers and retired teachers. Besides, women were allowed to actually vote, not just authorise a man to go and cast a vote in their name, which was the practice until then.
> total-slovenia-news.com/october-17-in-slovenian-history-women-vote-in-ljubljana-for-first-time
Gender Politics in the Western Balkans: Women and Society in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States
by Sabrina P. Ramet
› books.google.nl/books?id=9qv9HK6AViwC