[1] When the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was founded in 1918, the National Women's Alliance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes was founded to unite the women's organizations of the former independent states and direct a unified women's movement in the new state.
Initially dominated by moderate upper class women, professional middle class women with more modern feminist ideas split from the organization to form their national umbrella organization.
In 1923, the Feminist Alliance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes was therefore founded under the leadership of Alojzija Štebi.
The name was almost a copy of its predecessor National Women's Alliance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, but the beginning Feminist instead of National Women, signified that the new organization followed modern feminist ideas.
When the Communist takeover resulted in a declaration of equality between men and women, and all legal discrimination was removed in the new constitution of 1946, all the legal changes the Women’s Movements’ Alliance had advocated for were achieved without their participation in the creation of the constitution.