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Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada, co sponsored additionally by the Ukrainian Women's Organization, the Women's Association of the Canadian League for the Liberation of Ukraine and UNWLA. Hosting over 140 delegates, the hospitality program covered everything from a display of artifacts and traditional breads to a broad presentation on women political prisoners in the USSR. I would be remiss if I failed to mention Mrs. Emily Ostapchuk, who not only served as our hostess at a program for all Ukrainian delegates, but who coordinated all efforts towards this program. We were all thrilled to learn later in the week that she had received the Canadian Medal for Achievement for her work on the Human Rights Commission for British Columbia. My personal impressions will always include the warm reception and understanding from Princess Prem Purachatra, ICW's new president from Thailand, my old friends from Turkey, Colombia, Belgium and elsewhere as well as the kindness and simpatico of people we met for the first time from Canada, Israel, Great Britain and Australia. I was also proud as a Ukrainian-American to have chance to meet my "cousins" from Canada, namely, Mrs. Halyna Melnyk, Mrs. Nancy Shemuluck, Mrs. Olga Myskiw, Ms. Veronica Chuchman, Mrs. Lillian Gregory, Mrs. Olga Cylurik, Mrs. Olga Zaitz, Ms. Anna Chree and Mrs. Drozdowska, all of whom through their love for their native Canada, served as our helpful and concerned hostesses. Camille Smorodsky Woman Views & news in a woman's world During the celebration of the American Bicentennial some attention has been focused upon the contribution of women to the creation of the United States. Three larger-scale projects, in part icular, deserve mention. "Remember the Ladies: Women in America 1750-1815" is the first comprehensive exhibition on women's role during the Revolutionary era. The show—conceived and produced entirely by women—opened in Ply mouth, Massachusetts, from where it will travel to major cities in the country. Viking Press has published a catalog of the exhibition, which is available in both hardcover and paperback editions. The Bicentennial Women's Center opened in Philadelphia on April 9, under a last- minute grant from Pennsylvania Bicen tennial Commission. History is but of secondary concern to the center's organizers; their expressed purpose is "to touch the lives of as many women as possible...they should learn something of their options and their potential, which traditionally they've not been able to do." Forward-looking is also the "ERA Special," a train which will carry supoorters of the Equal Rights Amend ment to major American cities. Since this year seem s particularly appropriate for the passage of the amendment, it is hoped that the ERA Special will stimulate support for ERA ratification in the key states where it has not yet been voted upon. The project ia supported by the National Organization for Women. The United States Census Bureau has just published the most comprehensive report ever compiled on the status of American women; it is the first of its kind, showing demographic, social and economic trends among the female pop ulation. Some of the more significant findings are as follows: 1) women makeup 51.3% of the population—that is, there are 5.6 million more females than males; 2) women can expect to live an aver age of 8 years longer than men; 3) the number of women in the labor force nearly doubled between 1950 and 1974; 4) in 1974,77 women for every 100 men completed at least four years of college; the figuresa for 1950 were 66 women to every 100 men; 5) a growing proportion of women are single or divorced and not remarried; 6) 13% of families are female headed, an increase of 73% since 1960; 7) the near record-high fertility rate of the 1950's has in recent years dwindled to an all-time low; 8) childlessness among married women is not coming increasingly into vogue, but women under 30 are in creasingly favoring the two-child family; 9) the number of working wives has risen dramatically from 25% in 1950 to 44% in 1960'; 10) working wives now contribute 27% of the familoy's total income, up from 20% in 1960. The Department of Labor's newly published 1975 Handbook on Women Workers is chockful of depressing bad news. The earning gap between men and women in the United States continues to MOTRIA KUSHNIR widen, as does the distribution of wealth. The statistical data, gathered in 1973, proves conclusively—and who ever really doubted the fact—that women re main an underpaid, underutilized segment of American labor. The median income for full-time workers was *6,488, only 57% of the *11,468 received by men. A mere 1.3% of all women earned in excess of *15,000 annually compared with 17% of the men. Most startling is the fact that women who had four or more years of college averaged *9,771 a year; men, however, with an eighth-grade education earned on the average of *9,406 annually. "...But I don't know her husband's name, operator. Her name is...I see, you can't find her number unless I give you his name..." Ever had that problem trying to find a friend's phone number Well, the single name telephone listing may be come a thing of the past. Assistant Attorney General William Griffin and Att orney Mary Skinner have filed a re commendation with the Public Service Board in Vermont that the New England Telephone Company list names of both husband and wife in their directories. The proposed listing would be a single line, as in: Washington, George/Martha, 101 Main Street. At present telephone subscribers must pay a fee for a double name entry, the cost ranging from state to state. The telephone company opposes the re-commendation, which is supported by the Commission on the Status of Women. If adopted, the new policy may establish a precedent for similar listings in directories in other states. Continuation in the next issue 24 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ, ВЕРЕСЕНЬ, 1976 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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