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Save your heart! The AARP Bulletin, May 1990 stated that according to a recent study of nearly 116,000 middle aged women, those in the heaviest weight category (more than 30 percent above ideal weight) were three times as likely as lean women to suffer from coronary heart disease, heart attack or angina. Even women who gain just 20 pounds between their late teens and middle age doubled their risk. There is no shortage of information today on what to do to lead a reasonably healthy life. A low-fat diet and a sane program of exercise, barring any inherent physical or physiological detriments, should be adhered to. Status of Women. Last year in October the New York City Commis sion of the Status of Women and New York University’s School of Education, Health, Nursing and Arts Profes sions co-sponsored a half-day conference, Four Years After Nairobi: Where Women Stand Now. The purpose of the conference was to review the progress and achievements, as well as the setbacks in the commit ment to carry out the mandate set forth in the Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women to the Year 2000. The 371-page document was adopted by 157 governments at the end of the United Nation’s Decade for Women. Kristen Timothy, Senior Officer, Women’s Issues, at the United Nations said that Forward Looking Strategies Cont. from p. 22. Without doubt, Shljach embraced a variety of very different artists. And yet they are all united in the fact that they are talented and unique in their talents. Seeing just some part of their collective talent is convincing enough that we have a remarkable group of unusual artists who seek their own ways of expression. It is important to keep in mind that Ukrainian art has no right to seclude itself within its local framework. In its development it must be parallel to the develop ment of world art, as was in our tradition to do so. Tradi tions teach how to be contemporary. The art works of the members of Shljach were also shown at the international exhibition Impreza ’89 held in Ivano-Frankivsk, at the end of 1989. Also, their work was outstanding and rewarded with citations. This exhibition also emphasized the Shljach artists’ superior mastery of their craft. Currently, a new exhibition is being prepared by the group. Let us hope that it will become a landmark in the arts in Ukraine. (The above article was translated from Ukrainian. It was received from Ukraine and published in the April, 1990 issue of OUR LIFE.) has become a blueprint for evaluating and implement ing programs. Serious efforts are made to insure that all programs (health, education, employment) are evalu ated in terms of how they impact on women and women’s roles in the decision making, planning and design of programs. This in turn insures that the available assist ance is permeated with a deep concern for women. She went to say that women’s role in society has become an integral part of U.N.’s agenda. According to Ms. Timothy, the U.N. has made a commitment to focus on four major issues concerning women in the next several years: 1) the economic and political empowerment of women; 2) women’s economic role within and outside of the family; 3) women and the environment; and 4) women and peace. Speakers on behalf of Third World nations under lined the harmful effect that national debt, overpopula tion and poverty have had on women in their respective areas. They outlined the activities and plans of their individual agencies which assist women in economic development and ensure their participation in policy decisions from the grass roots level and up. The newly appointed U.S. Representative to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, Juliette C. McLennan was a speaker in the Women of the United States segment of the conference. She said that she intended to meet on a regularly scheduled basis with representatives of women’s groups and state commis sions on the status of women concerning three priority subjects: literacy and women’s access to information; strengthening procedures at the Commission of the Sta tus of women for investigating and reporting exploita tion and abuse of women in various countries; and ensuring that women become more active participants in planning for progress, specifically in the area of busi ness ownership. According to her, women are opening businesses at one and one half the rate of men. Mary Purcell, former President, American Associa tion of University Women, in her speech chided the U.S. for its failure to support the Equal Rights Amendment, pointing out that presently there is no national machin ery in place for monitoring progress or setbacks in women’s equality. She urged the U.S. to ratify the Con vention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimina tion against Women. She also focused attention on the influential role of the Council of Presidents, which is comprised of the leaders of 49 women’s organizations who are committed to the issues raised in the Forward Looking Strategies. The group also promotes a Women’s Agenda which is presented to the U.S. Congress an nually. The participants of the conference concluded their session with a “Pledge to the Family of Earth:” I Pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora, fauna and human life that it supports, one planet, indivisible, with safe air, water and soil, economic justice, equal rights and peace for all.
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