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National Council of Women/USA Seminar Participants in Celebration of the United Nations 50th Anniversary. Iryna Kurowyckyj, NCW/USA President (at the podium), from left: Seminar Moderator Rhoda Plotkin, NCW/USA Alt. Repr. to the UN; UN Ambassador H. E. Mr. Hans Jacob Biorn Lian from Norway; UN Ambassador H. E. Sra. Julia Tavares de Alvares from Dominican Republic; Sir Brian Urguhart Scholar in Residence, International Affairs Program, Ford Foundation and Dr. Irene Tinker, President, US Council for INSTRAW. believed that the natural tendency for women would be to want to look down on men, and that is why Mott and Stanton were directed upstairs to the gallery. So that we may finally clear up the confusion on this matter, let us assure men everywhere that the only angle of vision we aspire to is the one that will enable us to look them straight in the eye. We are not interested in subtracting anything from men’s rights. The mathe matical symbol we cherish is the equal sign, nothing more or less. Just as two plus two equals four, whether one is in Plymouth, England or Plymouth, Massachusetts, Cairo, Egypt or Cairo, Illinois, women want and need equality throughout the world. From a world perspective, un fortunately, equality is still a distant goal, and while the United Nations has played an important part in some of the advances we have made, the role of this crucial organization in the progress of women is still far from what it might be. I think that those of us who love the U.N. — and I count myself as one such person — ought to be constructively critical of its position on and in the struggle of women for equal rights. Let’s look at where women stand, and where the United Nations stands on women: According to the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, at least one-fourth of all households worlwide are headed by women, but only one percent of these women are actual homeowners. As a recent UN report points out, “marriage and divorce laws supersede women’s rights to own land, thus virtually disinheriting them.” Women, who as a group are among the world’s poorest people, do 2/3 of the world’s work. They produce between 60 and 80% of all food in Africa and Asia, 40% in Latin America. Nevertheless, throughout the world, women are consistently paid less than men for the same work — generally 30 to 40 percent less. In 1985 there were almost one billion people in the world who could not read; of these, 2 out of 3 were women. Even in the industrially advanced nations, women have not been able to break through the so-called ’’glass ceiling.” According to the March 20 issue of Business W eek, 25 years after the women’s movement became a force to be reckoned with in American politics and society, 95% of top-level corporate managers in the U.S. are men. If the value of women in general as productive citizens is under-utilized and under-appreciated, the worth of older women is discounted almost 100 percent, for women are usually considered productive only as long as they are reproductive. In truth, we older women are often not so much discounted as discarded. If women frequently find it hard to be seen in a serious light, older women find it hard to be seen at all. In other words, when it comes to depreciation, older women get written off very quickly. Our ’’book value” tends to drop precipitously with age. Yet the positive possibilities are always so tantalizing Just thismonth, for example, Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking on the occasion of International Women’s Day, remarked that “There are more self-employed women than men in the Third World. Without their work, Africa woudl be in a very much worse crisis than it is now.” There is just a hint of what we in our Third World might dream and aspire to: the full participation by women in all of society’s activities, for their own and for everyone’s benefit. If we dare to dream and aspire to change things for the better, we will have to deal with politics as well as economics. Here, the problems are also p ro - n o u n c e d — meaning that we have to deal with the “he” and the “she” of it. It was many years ago that Eleanor Roosevelt, while working at the UN in its youth, said: “Too often 20 ’’НАШЕ Ж ИТТЯ”, ТРАВЕНЬ 1995 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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