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Katja Boh (1929–2008) was a
Slovenia Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in Central Europe. It borders Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and a short (46.6 km) coastline within the Adriati ...
n sociologist,
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and
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.


Early life and career

She was born in a wealthy
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family in
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,
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(now the capital of Slovenia). Her father was an
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who had converted to
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, her mother was Slovene. During
World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, she was imprisoned by the
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. In 1946 she got engaged to
Ljubo Sirc Ljubo Sirc CBE (19 April 1920 – 1 December 2016) was a British- Slovene economist and prominent dissident from Yugoslavia. Life and work Sirc was born in Kranj, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, in a wealthy and ren ...
who later became an
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.Ljubo Sirc, Med Titom in Hitlerjem (Ljubljana: DZS, 1992) The same year, however, Sirc was imprisoned by the
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and trialed at the so-called
Nagode trial The Nagode Trial () was a political show trial in Slovenia, Yugoslavia in 1947.Vodušek Starič, Jerca. 1993. Nagodetov proces. ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'', vol. 7, p. 270. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga. The trial was carried out by the Slovene aut ...
. Due to Sirc's long confinement and later exile, their engagement failed. She had 2 stepchildren (Maja and Ali Boh) and a daughter Katja Boh - Cerjak from her marriage to Dr. Boh. She studied sociology at the
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and obtained her PhD in 1974. She dedicated herself to the study of
family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
patterns, becoming one of the leading
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an experts in the field.


Involvement in politics

A decided supporter of
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and political pluralism, she became involved in politics during the
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in the 1980s. She was among the co-founders of the Slovenian Social Democratic Party in 1989, together with
Jože Pučnik Jože Pučnik (9 March 1932 – 11 January 2003) was a Slovenian public intellectual, sociologist and politician. During the communist regime of Josip Broz Tito, he was one of the most outspoken Slovenian critics of dictatorship and lack of civil ...
,
Matjaž Šinkovec Matjaž Šinkovec (; born on 22 May 1951) is a Slovenian diplomat, politician, translator, journalist and science fiction writer. He was one of the co-founders of the Slovenian Democratic Party. Early life and career Šinkovec was born in a mi ...
and France Tomšič. After the victory of the
DEMOS coalition Democratic Opposition of Slovenia, also known as DEMOS (in Slovenian: ''Demokratična opozicija Slovenije''), was a coalition of centre-right political parties created by an agreement between the Slovenian Democratic Union, the Social Democrat ...
in the first free elections in Slovenia in April 1990, she became the Minister for Health in
Lojze Peterle Alojz "Lojze" Peterle (born 5 July 1948) is a Slovenian politician. He is a member of New Slovenia, part of the European People's Party. He served as Prime Minister of Slovenia from 1990 to 1992, Leader of the Christian Democrats from the found ...
's cabinet. She remained in office until 1991, when she was appointed as the first Slovenian
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to
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. She remained in
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until 1997 when she retired. She remained an advisor to the
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, and was one of the co-authors of the party's program on social issues for the 2004 parliamentary elections. She was also an active member of the International Paneuropean Union. She died in August 2008 in Ljubljana and was buried in the
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cemetery.


Major works

*''Changing Patterns of European Family Life'' (co-author, New York - London, 1990). *''Cross Cultural Perspectives on Families, Work, and Change'' (together with Giovanni Sgretta, New York - London, 1989). *''Ženske in diskriminacija'' ("Women and Discrimination", co-author; Ljubljana, 1986).


See also

* Alenka Puhar


Sources


Article in the daily newspaper VečerArticle in the journal Demokracija


References

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