She graduated from the University of Zagreb in 1976 with a double major of sociology and ethnology and subsequently worked for the Institute for the History of the Workers' Movement in Croatia.
[2] Sklevicky coordinated the first feminist meetings in Zagreb in the late 1970s and was one of the founders of the group Women and Society (Croatian: Žena i društvo) in 1979.
She served as the group's coordinator in 1982–83 and later volunteered for the Zagreb-based SOS Hotline for abused women and children.
In the late 1980s she was a columnist for the women's magazine World (Croatian: Svijet), addressing "numerous topics including abortion, the female body, witches and ‘respectable’ feminists".
[3] A posthumous collection of her work, including her unfinished Ph.D. dissertation, Emancipation and Organization: The Antifascist Women’s Front and Post-revolutionary Social Change.