Marija Maister. Kept by the ULM.
well as private businesswomen, to providing work and material support for single mothers when this was needed. The society used collected contributions to provided scholarships for female students – one of the well-known ones was the later heroine, Slava Klavora. Members of the society were very active in the struggle for women’s suffrage. The society’s president, Marija Maister, visited Minister Dr. Miha Krek and the Ban of the Drava Banovina, Dr. Marko Natlačen, in connection with this question. Together with the committee for the Congress of the League of Nations in 1936 in Geneva, she prepared a lecture on equal rights for men and women. In the same year, the Maribor Slovene Women’s Society founded a feminist section and invited young female intellectuals to cooperate. It also supported the economic independence of women and organised an exhibition Women in Small Industry, during Maribor Week. In addition to all this, Marija also worked in the French Club and at the Adult Education Institute in Maribor. The French government awarded her the Palme academique and Mouchan d´Isticar for her excellent leadership of the French Club. The most important sphere of Marija Maister’s public activity remained leading the Women’s Society; her penetration, perseverance and power of persuasion decisively contributed to its success. OH, MTP
ANGELA BOŠKIN (1885-1977)*, the first nurse and social worker in Slovenia and Yugoslavia. Angela Boškin devoted her life to the struggle to improve the health and social position of the population, especially mothers and children. She began her career in Vienna, where she enrolled as a nursing student in 1912. She did her practical training in the world famous Wertheim Clinic and, after completing her training, she became an assistant to the senior gynaecologist, Dr. Wagner. In 1917, she was appointed head nurse in a reserve military hospital and, a year later, completed the school for social and health work in Vienna. She did not at first obtain a suitable post in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slo-
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Summarised from Majda Šlajmer Japelj: Marija Maister, in: Pozabljena polovica: portreti žensk 19. in 20. stoletja na Slovenskem (Forgotten Half: portraits of women of the 19th and 20th century in Slovenia). Ljubljana: Založba Tuma ; SAZU, 2007, p. 212–215.