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Social meeting of delegates from USA, Egypt, Switzerland, Germany and Siera Leone with Helen Prociuk and Camille Smorodsky. economic value of work in the home be allotted special attention by all NGOs in the U. N. Other recommendations were in favor of supporting urban renewal projects for better housing and protection future food supplies. Lest I leave you with the impression that all we did was work at the conference, please be assured that we had ample time to meet old friends from the Mexico Tribune conference as well as make new ones. In fact, UNWLA and WFUWO sponsored a hospitality night for all the delegates. Our Branch 103, under the leadership of its President, Ms. Iwanna Solyts and its warm hospitality Chairman Ms. Zenobia Zaretsky, arranged our rather bare room with not only hutzul pottery, intricate embroideries and paintings by Mazepa, but provided us with home-made pastries and refreshments for all the delegates who came to visit. At the end of the conferency, Dr. and Mrs. R. Sochynsky also extended the hospitality of their home to some of the delegates for a gracious tea. It was a wonderful opportunity for many of notable guests, including Mrs. Josefa Marcos, mother of the president of the Philippines to not only get to know us better but get a sampling of our dances and songs, performed by Miss Lidia Soltys and Mr. Oleh Kalinowsky. All in all, the Congress proved not only to be fruitful, but very enjoyable. The Alliance is an old organization working since its foundation on very modern and actual problems. Their member organizations are young and vital. The delegates that came to the Congress were women of various age groups, various socio-economic background and from all parts of the world working thogether on common problems erased all the differences. We are looking forward to working more closely with the Alliance and its member organizations in the near future. Camille Huk Smorodsky M. К. SLABY THE ROLE OF WOMEN SINCE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION As we read the pages of American history, we find that the role of women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries changed a great deal from the role of women of the American revolutionary period. In the September issue of O U R L IF E we read that Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren prepared and sent a petition to Congress for the 1) right for women to vote, 2) compensation for looting and robbing of per sonal properties and estates by British and American soldiers, and 3) protection from rape by British soldiers. Congress, however, did not take action on the petition. By examining a few outstanding women from the pages of American history we will see some of the hopes of Abigail Adams and Mercy Warren become a reality. Women played a secondary role in society during the revolutionary era. Even in the 1830’s a college education was exclusively for men. It was the prevailing medical opinion that women’s brains were too delicate for intellectual strain. Mary Lyons, geography teacher, could not accept this. She toured the New England states collecting funds to establish the first in dependent college for women in the United States. Her founding of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts in 1836 encouraged the establishment of other colleges for women. But although they now had colleges, women found themselves barred from the professions such as medicine and law. Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman medical doctor in the United States dedicated her life to fighting for the education and acceptance of women doctors. In the 1850’s prevented from practicing medicine in city hospitals, she opened her own clinic in a New York slum. Later it became the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. She toured America and her native England giving lectures on the need for preventive medicine, hygiene, and sex education and on medicine as a profession for women. Due to her struggle for equal rights, Elizabeth Blackwell helped to break down the barrier in medicine so that by 1900 the United States had more than 7000 practicing women doctors. Fulfilling a childhood dream of ’’abolishing laws that made women cry" Elizabeth Cady Stanton, daughter of a judge, organized a historic two-day con vention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 which launched the woman’s rights movement in America.
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