It was formed by volunteers along with other
Women's Antifascist Fronts in Yugoslavia and was one of only four to also become an organised
Communist resistance. The predecessors of the organization were the commissions for work with women of the
Macedonian Communist Party established in March 1943. They illegally formed the first committees in Kavadarci and Negotino in the
Bulgarian occupation zone of Yugoslavia. The organization was officially founded on December 14, 1944, in Skopje, a month after the
capture of the city. They published the magazine
Makedonka (Macedonian woman), which was the first women's magazine in the newly codified
Macedonian language. The most prominent figure in the movement was
Veselinka Malinska, a decorated
World War II veteran and
ASNOM participant. During the
Greek Civil War, the organisation's allies as the
National Liberation Front and the National Liberation Youth Association, which had a substantial number of female
partisans, were active in
Greek Macedonia. The organisation was transformed into the ''Union of Women's Societies of Macedonia
in 1953. In 1961, the organisation became Conference for Women's Social Activity
. In 1991, the organisation ceased to exist and the Organization of Women of Macedonia'' declared itself as its successor. ==See also==