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CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS — A GIFT FOR ALL SEASONS It’s that time of year again when you begin to agonize over what Christmas gifts to buy for whom. Can’t you see it already? Trudging from one department store to another on a Saturday afternoon in late December, with a pounding headache and aching feet, desperately looking for the one gift your aunt, cousin or girlfriend really needs for Christmas. But when you stop and think about it, if she really needed something, she probably went ahead and bought it for herself. Besides, how do you know that the elegant blouse you have in mind for her will fit, or that she’ll like the color, or the style? There is a solution. Why not eliminate all the hassle and give a gift with a difference: a year’s subscription to Our Life (and if you’re feeling generous, a two-year sub scription). In Our Life the reader will find interesting articles (in Ukrainian and English) about Ukrainian culture, acti vities of Ukrainian women in the U. S. and abroad, embroidery patterns,tasteful and exciting new recipes for Ukrainian food, children’s stories and games. In fact, there’s very little that Ukrainian women of all ages won’t find interesting in Our Life. Not least of all, your Christmas gift won’t be put away in a clothes drawer to be worn when you come around to visit. Our Life will continue to be read month after month, delighting the recipient and her family. (By the way, did you know that many of our readers are men?) Finally, if you need any more persuasive argu ments, ask yourself: What can you get for $13 in the store these days? The answer is: Not much. To arrange for a gift subscription, send a check or money order for $13 to Our Life, 108 Second Ave., New York, NY 10003. Be sure to include a letter specifying the name and address of the recipient. We’ll then send her an announcement letting her know that she will receive a unique Christmas gift — in twelve installments! Let us hear from you. Christmas will be here sooner than you think. giving back to my youth organization some of the time and benefits I received from it,” she says. In her student days, Maria was active in the New York City Ukrainian Student Hromada in its heyday of 1967-1974 when she worked tirelessly as circulation manager of the Hromada’s New Directions Magazine. For the last eight years she has been active in the Committee for the Defense of Soviet Political Prisoners, writing petitions, holding community meetings, preparing materials for conferences and lobbying with influential groups and individuals in American society on behalf of prisoners of conscience in the USSR. Wherever she has been involved, Dr. Motyl has avoided fancy titles and her photos strewn across the pages of the Ukrainian press. That’s just not her style. Her style is: persistence, consistency and plain hard work. Maria denies the sterotype of the absentminded scientist who does not see the world beyond her microscope. ’’Look at Linus Pauling, who won Nobel prizes both for biochemistry and for peace,” she points out. ON CAREER OPPORTUNITIES ”lf a young science student asked me for career advice today, I could say without qualification that the opportunities in the fields of applied microbiology, chemistry, biochemistry or biology are tremendous now, compared to even five years ago,” Dr. Motyl says. ’’Industry and big business have become very interest ed in genetic engineering — the manipulation of DNA, the basic structure of all life, which has opened the possibility of limitless production of such scarce compounds as insulin and interferon. And the commercial production of bacteria that will eat oil spills is probably in the near future.” Genetic engineering is an exciting field that offers the scientist the challenge of pure research plus generous financial rewards. "But as for myself,” Dr. Motyl admits, ”lf I had the chance to start all over again, I would choose the same path I did eight years ago.” ON FEMINISM AND NETWORKING Dr. Motyl is concerned with feminism, because in her field, as in so many others, she sees evidence of discrimination against women. "Women scientists are denied faculty tenure and work at a lower pay scale than men. This is particularly true for women several decades older than myself,” she says. ”l believe there’s a whole generation of young Ukrainian women like myself out there who have not been willing to join the women’s movement per se, but who would be glad to combine their interests in women’s issues with their ethnic orientation in the context of a Ukrainian women’s organization. ”l think that every stage of one’s life demands an association with people who share similar ideas and experiences, feelings of camaraderie. At this time, I personally feel a strong need to associate with a network of professional women with whom I could share ideas and concerns about what it means to be Ukrai nian and female in today’s society. Anisa Handzia Sawyckyj 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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