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Mitra Mitrović (Serbian: Митра Митровић; 6 September 1912 – 4 April 2001) was a Serbian politician, feminist and writer.
The daughter of a railway official, she was born in Požega. Her father died of typhus during World War I and her mother was left to raise the five children. With the help of a scholarship, Mitrović was able to study at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy, earning a degree in Serbo-Croatian language and literature in 1934. In 1933, she joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. She was arrested several times[1] and, as an anti-fascist, was imprisoned following the German occupation of Serbia but managed to escape.[2]
She was a delegate to the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ). She was an editor of Borba, the Communist Party newspaper. She was a founding member of the Antifascist front of women (AFŽ) and served on its central committee.[3][4] She helped found the feminist newspaper Žena danas ("Woman today").[2]
She served as a member of the Serbian National Assembly and of the federal assembly for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.[2]
Mitrović was Minister of Education in the government of the People's Republic of Serbia.[5] Later, she served as president of the Council for Education and Culture.[2]
She married Milovan Đilas in 1936; the couple divorced in 1952.[5]
Even though she was no longer married to Đilas, when he fell out of favor, she was removed from all her political posts in January 1954.[3]
She published a memoir Ratno putovanje as well as books in support of women's rights: Pravo glasa žena dokaz i oruđe demokratije and Položaj žene u savremenom svetu.[2]
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