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O U R L IF E MONTHLY, published by Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Vol. XXXVI JANUARY 1979 No. 1 TO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL CHRYSTOS RAZHDAETSA CHRIST IS BORN SLAVITE YOHO GLORIFY HIM Dear subscribers, readers, supporters, and al people of good will who happen to glance at this issue of Our Life, our first issue of the year. We wish you good health and happiness. We hope you were able to spend the holidays in the company of all those who are dear to you. Perhaps all your dearest friends and family were unable to sit down with you for a holi day supper; perhaps you are separated from them by distances,borders or oceans. But sure ly, their thoughts and ours can conquer these obstacles. Thoughts can even penetrate the borders drawn by time: the old return to the past, the young race ahead to the future. There is, however, a greater obstacle than distance or time, one that is not as easily con quered: intolerance. Not just differences of opinions, ideas or customs, but the lack of basic human understanding for those who travel different roads, follow different ideas or simply have different preferences. Sometimes, perhaps even most often, it’s the insignificant and superficial differences that become insurmountable onstacles between people and are the basis for enmity and hate. When one looks at these petty differences objectively, one is able to recognize how unimportant they really are. Enmity and hate are easily conquered by tolerance and understanding. Let’s continue the good will of the holiday season throughout the year, especially toward those with whom we differ. So it is that we address our holiday greeting for people of good will. May all good things come to them. Editor and staff of Our Life WOMEN IN THE SOVIET UNION TODAY Although the Soviet Union often claims to have made great strides in guaranteeing equal rights to men and women, to some Western observers this equality seems more theoretical than actual. In the July 10, 1978 issue of US News and World Report, Jean Knight reports from Moscow that ’’equa lity in the Soviet Union is a superficial condition that merely entitles Russian women to take on work that American women would seldom think of doing — street cleaning or laboring on construction projects, for in- stantce” The professions dominated by women in the Soviet Union, such as medicine or teaching (75% women) are underpaid, and women are not well-represented at the highest levels of politics, government or industry. Women who work still have to play the role of housewifes after the job. In the Soviet Union this task is complicated by a shortage of food and consumer goods, lack of modern appliances and conveniences, and tra ditional chauvinist attitudes of Soviet husbands who leave all household matters to their ’’equal” wives. It has been calculated that a woman in the Soviet Union can spend up to eight hours each week waiting in those inevitable lines for scarce food and consumer pro ducts ^An additional complication is that 40% of all households do not have a refrigerator and 30% do not have washing machines. Many household chores must be done laboriously by hand. In the countryside, for example, many women hand-wash family laundry in the nearby rivers. Many items that an American woman takes for granted such as freezers, dishwashers, blenders, va cuum cleaners — or even a regular supply of canned and fresh foods — are unheard of. Women with households have two-job lives which are not made easier by the traditional chauvinist at- 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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