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UKRAINIAN WOMAN OUR ENGLISH COLUMN Congress of the Federation of University Women A singular congress was held in Paris on August 4 through 9 which had not been trumpeted in the press of large cities The Fed eration of University Women has been active for 36 years in varied spheres, however, during that time it has not been blazoning its achievements. Its work is characterized by exalted purpose fulness and business-like ap proach. The congress had for its slogan the international understanding. The main addresses and reports followed this theme. The work ing groups were elaborating this proposition. Together they fixated firm directives whidh will serve as guide-posts in succeeding years. In this way the educated women wish to contribute to lessening of political tension. Very interesting were the re ports on the Federation’s activi ties in the past. Its membership has grown to 176,300. During the time between the two last con gresses ten new societies o-f uni versity women have joined the Federation. They are chiefly from Asia and South America. The Federation's cooperation with the United Nations and its encouragement of research are its most outstanding fields of work. It has a consultative status with the UN which it is readily utilizing in UNESCO and ECA- SO'C. The organization has con stituted tw o committees relative to these objectives which have submitted extensive reports. The Federation is administering many international scholarships. Its members have also donated toward foundation of such sti pends. During the past year o.f ac count the Federation granted to deserving students 9 internation al scholarships and the Associa tion of University Women of U. S. rendered financial support to 22 students in 1955-1956. Next to it is the Association of University Women of Canada. Other socie ties furnished one or two scholar ships each for their own or for eign studying girls. It is note worthy that the Association of University Women of Japan pre sented 26 studying girls with smaller stipends. The Ukrainian university w o men have not so far created a so ciety of their own and thus did not join the Federation. The university women in our homeland are not. unfortunately, free to unite into a separate so ciety, as it is generally the rule behind the Iron Curtain. We do know, by our own experience as well as from statistics, that there are very many women college graduates in Ukraine. Some of the figures were given in the So viet statistics on occasion of the women’s day observed on March 8. According to these findings there were in Ukraine in 1953 around 200,000 women teachers, 45.000 women physicians and 10.000 women agronomists. In the universities of Ukraine there were then 249,000 girls. All for eign correspondents and travelers who recentl}' visited Ukraine, at test to the fact that the number of educated women specialists there is very high. Some spheres, like teaching or sanitary service, are for the most part furnished with women. The Ukrainian women could be represented within the Federa tion only by our university w o men in the Free World. To this end the World Federation of U k rainian, Women’s Organizations (W FUW O) is now planning to organize a section of university women which is to gather all forces scattered throughout the world- Some of them may be come members of the Association o
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