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gress and Prospects. The report surveyed 1,250 female executives, interviewed 20 male CEOs and 20 female executive. Most frequently stated by the women sur veyed, according to the study, is to consistently exceed performance expectations. Second on the list, was to have a personal style that male managers are comforta ble with. Less mentioned in the report was seeking out challenging assignments and networking with important colleagues. Women executives interviewed by Dunkel, said, that finding the right company to work for was vital, having a high-visibility extracurricular project, and making people aware of your accomplishments was also very important. However, the bottom line, acording to Tom Dunkel, is that America should not hold its breath waiting for a woman CEO. The Catalyst study points out that both men and women executives agree that what holds women back is the lack of more general management expe rience, and women say that they, as women, are excluded from informal networking. The stereotypes and procen- ception which men hold about women are also strong barriers to top management positions. And, of course, many ambitious corporate women would like to raise families, which, according to Dunkel, ereates situations requiring “a balancing act” and “some daunting sacrifi ces” on the long, tough road upward. DEMOCRATIC MEDIA INITIATIVE PUTS EMPHASIS ON WOMEN'S JOURNALISM. Democratic Media Initiative Project, initiated by a group of women journalists from Kyiv and developed at the United Nations Office in Ukraine, has been approved recently for implementation by the UN Office for Project Services in the New York headquarters of the United Nations. Oksana Kuts, a journalist from Kyiv who approached the UN Office in Ukraine with the idea of this project last January, was appointed national coordi nator for the project only a week before the UN Women’s Conference started in China. “It is not accidental that the project was developed during the year of the Fourth World Conference of Women”, Oksana said after returning from Beijing where she worked as a reporter for the Beijing Watch, a daily newspaper produced by the Women Feature Service. “The main goals of this endeavor is to support women writers in Ukraine, to assist in creating a women’s press center and a women’s issues journal. By doing this we hope to make the Ukrainian women’s perspective more visible in the mainstream world media.” The world is curious to know what it feels like to be a woman in a transition society. Women journalists from Ukraine had been providing this information first hand before the press center was even created and the pro ject approved. Their stories reflected the challenges imposed on Ukrainian women by the transition period to democracy and market economy. Features about Kyivan mothers challenging the Chornobyl nuclear monster, stories on women who were saving their child ren from a spiritual prison of new pseudo-cults, features on women in banking and the arts in Ukraine as well as others were translated into English and Spanish and sent by the Women Feature Service to major magazines and newspapers all over the world. (Women Feature Service is an all-women’s international news service with more than 100 women journalists on six continents.) “We also realize that we have a lot to do in order to mainstream women’s issues in our own country,” Oksana Kuts admitted. “There are only a few women at high managerial levels of the Ukrainain economy; women constitute only four percent of Ukraine’s parliament. I was very sorry that Ukraine was not able to appoint a woman as head of the official delegation to the World Conference of Women. Unfortunately, we still do not have a woman as minister. In order to raise public awareness on the importance of the advancement of women in society, a Women’s issues journal will be launched as part of the project,” she said. The Democratic Media Initiative project also has a broader context. Its fundamental goal is to promote objective, independent and socially responsible media in support of pluralistic democracy by exposing repre sentatives of the mass media to international practices, norms and standards, as well as to inform on new tech nologies, electronic mail and other means of commu nication. In connection with the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — whose office in Ukraine is perhaps the biggest supporter of the advancement of women — the Democratic Media Initiative project has contributed by publishing the “UN and Ukraine: 50 years of Cooper ation” booklet. IRYNA KUROWYCKYJ
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