Vida Tomšič

Vida Tomšič ''née'' Bernot (26 June 1913 – 10 December 1998) was a Slovenian Partisan fighter during World War II, prominent communist politician, women's activist, and people's hero in postwar Yugoslavia.

Vida Tomšić became an antifascist activist in the interwar period. She was arrested and tortured by the occupation forces during the war, and her husband Tone Tomšić was executed. After the war she acting as a leader of the Women's Antifascist Front of Yugoslavia (AFŽ).

She was born and died in Ljubljana and held many government positions in Slovenia and Yugoslavia during her long career.

Tomšič was a Marxist feminist who "saw women’s rights as strictly dependent on the social and economic development of the country as a whole." Provided by Wikipedia