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OUR LIFE MONTHLY, published by Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Vol. XXXIV______________________________________ March 1977 |No 3 Editor M arta Baczynsky From the desk of our president, Mrs. Iwanna Rozankowsky Part 11 (Excerpts in translation from a message voiced by President of UNWLA Mrs. Iwanna Rozankowsy, to the membership) From December 1974 through September 1976 the Executive Board held 65 meetings, three of which lasted a full day each. Since its election, the Board has placed its working emphasis upon planning and guiding the programs of individual Branches and Regional Councils. The Board has also worked steadily to realize the resolutions of the last Convention. In cooperation with the Committee in Defense of Political Prisoners, UNWLA has issued a brochure in English concentrating on information about women political prisoners. This brochure was made available to the general membership, to our communities, and was sent in numbers to Senators, Congressmen and govern ment agencies here and abroad. In 1975 the Executive Board established a Committee of Commendations, which, upon review of past work on behalf of the organization, would issue commendations to deserving branches of the organi zation. The Executive Council is in close touch with other Ukrainian women’s organizations throughout the world. The Ukrainian museum has finally become a reality. Its timely opening is due in part to the unsurpassed efforts of a few dedicated people especially its curator, Oksana Hrabowych. Although it may seem that the greatest hurdles have been passed, this is but the first step on the long road to success. It is fervently hoped that the financial situation will improve and with it will come all that is nnecessary for the growth of this insti tute. The Ukrainian Museum is also a member of the American Association of Museums. The Executive Board has assumed all the details concerned with the running of the Museum. This in volves advertising, fund raising, recruiting personnel, etc. The Museum has established contact with other Mu seums around the world for a future exchange of infor mation, publications, exhibits. In New York, the Mu seum is listed in the Convention and Visitors Bureau as a point of interest in this city. The Bureau will shortly have a supply of brochures advertising the Museum.— The shop on the Museum grounds is very attractive and popular. In the able, professional care of Iwanna Sawycky it will undoubtedly become a haven for visi tors and shoppers. LIFE FOR SOVIET WOMAN ALL WORK, LITTLE STATUS A condensation of the A ugust 6, 1976 New York Tim es article by David K. Shlpler;. Soviet women are bulldozer drivers and ditch diggers, doctors and judges, and occasionally even jet pilots and ship captains. But are they liberated? Not very. According to official statistics and observations of women themselves, they have gained access to many professions but prominence in few. Whatever rank they do attain peels away instantly after working hours as they take on household chores that are extremely burdensome .... Some 71 percent of the secondary-school teachers are women, but 72 percent of the principals are men. Similarly, while 70 percent of the doctors are women, the heads of hospitals and other medical facilities are usually men.... Explaining the high proportion of women in the medical profession, a scientist said, ’’Men don’t want it because the pay is so low.” Doctors earn an everage of a little over 100 rubles, or $135 a month, according to the latest statistics, less than three-quarters of the average industrial wage. In factory work, sociologists have reported, women are gravitating toward light manufacturing, which pays less than heavy industry .... Some of the underrepresentation of women in administrative posts reflects their underrepresentation in politics, for many key positions in industry and education — a secondary school principal’s job, for example — require Communist party membership. There are 3,646,000 women party members, which is 24 percent of the total, and the men hold the important party posts. The most powerful body, the 15-member Politburo headed by Leonid I. Brezhnev, includes no women. Only once since the 1917 revolution has a woman served as a НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ, БЕРЕЗЕНЬ 1977 23
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