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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ТРАВЕНЬ 2010 15 WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS IN INDEPE NDENT UKRAINE: PROSPECT OF POWER 1997 J. B. Rudnyckyj Distinguished Lecture presented by Martha Bohachevsky - Chomiak at the University of Manitoba Part 4 Confederation of Women of Ukraine (Spilka Zhinok Ukrainy) The Confederation of Women of Ukraine (Sp ilka Zhinok Ukrainy), reorganized in July of 1993, is the new version of the Council of Women established under Mikhail Gorbachev. It still claims [in 1997] to number about 50,000 members. With the changes in the country, this association has focused on he lping its members become economically self - sufficient. At its second conference in December 1992, it established a Society of Ukrainian businesswomen that annually awards the Lybid Prize to the most innovative successful businesswoman of the year. Among it s ventures is the knitting cooperative Kalyna in which 200 women participate. The organization has also entered into a joint venture with the agricultural firm Zoria . 29 The activities of this group of women can best be characterized as those of urban women of the middle classes that stress self - sufficiency and self - confidence to maintain an acceptable standard of living. They discarded the Party rhetoric, but have not devised a new symbolism or ideology. At the two conferences the organization held in Odesa in 1992 and 1995, however, the program was heavily weighted with topics dealing with the history and culture of Ukraine. In addition to health and economic issues, the 1995 Conference, held June 19 - 22, 1995 , in conjunction with the Ministry of Education a nd the Odesa Academy of Food Technologies, included two sessions on Ukrainian women in World War II. 30 This group publishes a small monthly called I, You, and We (“ Ia, ty, i my ” . ) It had been informally connected, however, with the largest and most popular of the Ukrainian women ’ s journals, the monthly magazine Soviet Woman (Radianska Zhinka) which became, under the able editorship of Lidia Mazur, simply Woman (Zhinka) . 31 By 1996 its circulation dropped in favor of its glossier more sophisticated rivals, Ie va and Natalie , private journals resembling a cross between Vogue and the old Cosmopolitan . Olena Teliha Association (Asotsiasiia Oleny Te - lihy) One of the most openly patriotic women ’ s organ - izations, the Olena Teliha Association, created on June 9, 19 94, 32 grew out of the need of the women on the editorial staff of the newspaper Our Word to distribute donated medicines. Officially founded by the Foundation of Oleh Olzhych, the society has as its aim: “. . . the continuation of the progressive tradition s of the organized women ’ s movement, directed toward the assertion in Ukrainian society of democratic ideals, national consciousness, pre - servation of territorial integrity and political sovereignty of Ukraine. ” 33 This organization proposes to achieve thro ugh “ patriotic education of new generations in the spirit of self - sacrificing service to the ideals of Ukrainian democratic statehood, raising the cultural level of the people, its welfare. [We] consider the patriotic upbringing of women, especially of you th, as the spiritual precondition of progress in all aspects of life. ” Openly promoting religious toleration and “ inter - ethnic solidarity in the name of Ukrainian independence ,” the organization proposed that women “. . . constitute a major factor in the a chievement of political stability, [which is] an essential precondition for the success of economic and political reforms, regeneration of national consciousness of Ukrainian women, Ukrainian language and spirituality, the preservation of the riches of our land, the solution of ecological problems. ” 34 Working with all segments of the popula - tion — “ from the elite levels (sciences, all branches of the arts and culture, scientific - pedagogical bodies) to clerks, peasants , and workers — the society ” promotes the st rengthening of national statehood and the consolidation of the Ukrainian people. 35 Under the leadership of Olha Kobets and Oksana Kuts the society spread to a number of Ukrainian cities, with an especially active branch in Simferopol. 36 Other women ’ s orga nizations Almost as an answer to the pacifism of the Mothers of Afghan Veterans, the League of Mothers and
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