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OUR LIFE M ONTHLY, published by Ukrainian intional Women's League of America Vol. XXXII May 1975 No. 5 We and Society "O ur meeting today is but one more indication that our tim e is the time of the universal awakening of minds. Potentials, which lay dorm ant for centuries, are now awakening and new ideas are piercing our spiritual and material world. Should women be the only ones untouched by all this?.... Let us tell men, that we can live with them, one in thought, working toward a common goal."..... With these words Natalia Kobrynsky opened an unprecedented meeting of Ukrainian women in Stanyslaviv in 1834, which resulted in the founding of the first women's organization in Halychyna; Public reaction to this new phenomenon was negative, if not dow nright belligevent. In an article entitled "O ur position in society" Maria Danysti explores almost a century of societies' reaction to the women's movement and gives suggestions how to strengthen our position today. Most of society would like to see women whose lives revolve around the conventional three K's (in German) — Kinder, Kuche and Kirche, says Mrs. Danysh. In America women have graduated one step higher, to the five F's (attributed to Marta Tarnawska, in her address about women's publications in America) which are fam ily, food,fashions, furnishings and in some cases feminism. Women are not regarded as equal partners of men in our society, continued Maria Danysh. Their participation in com m unity projects are limited to organizing buffets, bazzars and exhibits of cultural nature. Societies' feelings toward organized women's movement has not been different. In 1934 the first Congress of Ukrainian Women brought such reactions: the Catholic publicatiom "M eta" said of Ukrainian National W omen's League, who were the organizers of the Congress — "they represent a fem inist, liberal, anti catholic, even anti-religious point of view", while the Voice o f Society called the organizers' policies "bourgeois with backward ideology". From public opinions like the above, Mrs. Danysh rightly concluded an absurd, w ithout any concrete foundation, grasping at straws kind of an attack against any organized e ffo rt on the part of women. Today, one of the most striking but sad example of the disrespectful and indifferent attitude of Ukrainian Editor Marta Baczynsky International Women’s Year 1975 "It's evidence o f God's grace that your wife is w illing to wash yo u r socks and dry your dishes. It is not her role. She's yo u r equal, friend and colleague. A ll women are". Quote a ttrib u te d to Mrs. M argaret Eliza Kuhn, a form er Presbyterian ch u rch executive. society toward the problems of organized women is the removal of the UNW LA's Folk Art Museum from the building of the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York. Although almost immediately, the Executive Committee of our organization explained the precarious situation of the priceless collection of folk art, in Svoboda, public reaction to its plight was almost nil. What should we do then, asks Mrs. Danysh, to break down these walls of indifference and injustice within our society. First of all, she urges that women stubbornly institute themselves as active participants in all phases of their com m unity activities and develop respective positions. We must also strengthen w ithin our own organization all that has proved beneficial to us and our cause, change or discard that which is not. Also, said Mrs. Danysh, it is not necessary to create new branches within our organization, when members can join the many branches which need new people, new ideas, new life. She feels that our efforts within UNWLA will be intensified when the wisdom of the elders will be in cooperation with the enthousiasm and energy of the young. The idea of creating professionals clubs for women is not a popular idea with Maria Danysh. She reminds us that in the Ukraine professional women, factory workers and farmers joined together in an effort to raise the spiritual and intellectual level of the Ukrainian women. UNWLA is now, and there is no need to waste tim e to organize something new. Mrs. Danysh underlines the im portance of under standing what UNWLA is. "It is not a club, she states, but an organization whose members all work w ithin a common idea-service to our country." НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ, ТРАВЕНЬ 1975 21
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