Gender Segregation in Post-Socialist Slovenia: Women’s Experiences in the Retail Sector

Abstract

Slovenia's transition from socialism coincided with its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. This meant that Slovenia's path of reform in the 1990s involved not only political and economic reforms but also a multidimensional process of state building that included creating the necessary economic and political institutions so that it could operate as a nation-state. The `three-track' process of reform and the distinctive socialist system that characterized Yugoslavia after 1948 have contributed to Slovenia often being considered in the literature as a `particular case' among Eastern European countries.