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OUR LIFE Monthly, published by Ukrainian National Women’» League ot America VOL. XLII M A Y 1985 Editor: Marta Baczynsky The 60 th Anniversary of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America The last ten years of activity in the UNWLA coin cides with the Decade for Women which was proclaimed and sponsored by the United Nations. This memorable milestone was preceded by the recurrence of women’s struggle for equality, initiated by the National Organiza tion for Women in 1966. Although the call of this move ment reverberated throughout the entire world, its influ ence manifested itself most strikingly in the United States. The women’s movement in the United States caused far-reaching social and moral changes, positive as well as negative, including the upheaval of the family unit as the foundation of the community. The one-sided liberal viewpoints of American feminists drew strong opposi tion from various quarters, with the main points of con troversy centering on abortions and the demands of lesbians, who by the way, quickly joined the ranks of the National Orgnization for Women. In other countries women applied the call for equality to the needs of their lifestyles and traditions. The Decade for Women had as its goal to unders core equality for women, to raise their level of literacy and allow access to every level of education, to achieve political rights for women, to realize equal opportunity for them in the labor market, as well as to obtain salar ies for women which would be on par with those received by men. The Decade also sought to introduce technical improvements in rural areas, particularly in the Third World countries. A result of the various international conferences held in conjunction with the Decade, countries are hold ing talks and debates to seek ways to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women. In keeping with the aims of the Decade, a Voluntary Fund formed under the auspices of the United Nations provides technical and financial aid to women from the poorest countries. Sev eral national and international institutions were formed to study and revew the status of women and to find ways and means to include women in the full spectrum of social structure. The theme of the Decade for Women is equality, development and peace. At conferences sponsored by the Decade for Wo men, Soviet delegates representing Ukraine dispense cheap communist propaganda. Ukrainian women’s orga nizations in the free world can only participate in an unofficial capacity. Providing information about the sta tus of women in the Ukraine and developing personal contacts with individuals who are members of official delegations. Recently, Ukrainian women’s organizations in the free world marked the 100th Anniversary of the Ukrain ian women’s movement and honored its ideological founder and pioneer Natalia Kobrynsky, as well as those who continued her work. The press marked the occa sion with many articles on this theme, generally center ing on the inception of the movement to 1939. But there are no thoughts nor analysis on the women’s movement since that time. Unfortunately, this portentous anniver sary failed to awaken the interest of Ukrainian women, to direct them toward an exchange of ideas, and to examine the last 45 years. It failed to provoke discus sions about the movement in countries where Ukrain ians have settled, particularly concerning aspects of their religious, moral and ethnic principles, matters which have always governed the Ukrainian women’s move ment. The influence of the new feminism on the younger generation of our women is all too obvious, although there is no reaction to its negative manifestation within our Ukrainian society. There is no end to the heated pro and con arguments concerning the new femnism in the America press, yet in ours, including our women’s mag azines, there is no interest at all in this problem. Among the thousands of women of Ukrainian back ground who have achieved a high educational level, there are many whose specializations are closely related to the general concerns of women. It seems, that they have neither the time nor the inclonation to share their knowledge and experience with the society from which they came. History points to the fact that the goal of the Ukrain ian women’s movement was to strive for equality in the political, economic and social structure. However, since we, Ukrainians, do not have our own country, we are thereby limited in the natural development as a free peoples and the struggle for liberty and independence becomes a priority in every social undertaking. The Ukrainian women’s movement also assumed this prior ity in its program from its very inception, to its strong, though short-lived manifestation during the period be tween the two World Wars in western Ukraine and ’’НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ТРАВЕНЬ 1985 27
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