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18 WWW. UNWLA.ORG “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, КВІТЕНЬ 2012 60 percent of the residents of rural areas believe that their village is deteriorating or dying bassador Yuriy Sergeyev, w ho greeted the spea k- ers and guests and spoke briefly about Ukraine’s representative at the 56 th Session of the CSW, Olena Suslova. During their presentations, the panelists Olena Suslova, Dr. Mart h a Kichorowska Kebalo, and Dr. Kathryn Vasilaky were unani mous in their conclusion that the triple burden of low - wage employment, domestic work and subsist - ence farming that women in rural areas have to carry is now combined with the additional burden of deteriorating conditions and infrastructure of the Ukrainia n village. This combination of factors has resulted in alarming statistics on the in - creasing rates of poverty and decreasing rates of employment and decreased access to education and health services among women. The paper of Dr. Iryna Klyuc h- kovska, D i rec tor of the International Institute of Education, Culture and Communications, Lviv Polytechnic University, Ukraine, which was tran s- lated and prepred for pr esentation by Dr. Kichorowska K e balo, defined the major challenges the women in Ukrain - ian villages face. People living in rural areas in Ukraine are almost twice as likely to be below Ukraine’s poverty level when com pared with the urban population. The i ncreasing tendency t o wards aging in the rural population, caused by mass emigration of young people and a decrease in the birth rate, calls for particular attention, since such a trend already has resulted in the di s appearance of 200 - 300 villages each year in Ukraine. The general pessimism about the situ a tion of the Ukrainian village is reflected in op i nion polls that indicate that 60 percent of the re s idents of rural areas b e- lieve that their village is deteriorating or dying. Women bear the brunt of this deterio - rating situation, yet have little means to improve it. Employed in jobs now considered as traditional for rural women in Ukraine, generally low - skilled, low - paid manual jobs, such as the cultivation of grain, sugar beets and sunflower s or the breed ing of pigs and tending cattle, women have receive little respect and have little opportunity of i m- provement or advancement. Current strategies for the modernization of farms, instead of improving the lives of rural women, often result in the loss of jobs; whereas women make up 40 percent of the labor force in agri culture, they are found in only 22.3 percent of middle and 5 percent of the top managerial positions in agrarian enterprises. The growing rates of maternal mortality and breast cancer (that too o ften is diagnosed at the ad - vanced stages) present yet another reason for concern for the condition of rural women. Olena Suslova, in her prese n tation, o f- fered several examples of projects and policies that, despite being small - scale, im prove the work co nd i tions of women and help them open a su c- cessful agribusiness. O p tions range from the e n- hancement of milk pr o duction to the improv e- ment of people’s access to the infor mation about the work of the natio n al and regional gover n ment entities, as well as abou t ways of providing fee d- back on pol i cies and legislation. Dr. Vasilaky, Vice - president, Research and Strategy for Troop S wap in Was h ington, DC, placed the discu s sion about the cha l lenges faced by rural women into the co n text of rural East Africa. She e n co u r aged those in a t- te n dance to think how the exp e- rience of deve l o p ing female e n tr e- preneurship in Northern Uganda can rever berate with the challenges that can be o b served in other parts of the world, i n cluding Ukraine. She stressed the connection b e tween th e skills and knowledge that women have at their disposal and the social norms that shape them. Technol o g i- cal advances now offer women an ele c tronic con nec tion with a broader world; these changes should be ta k- en into a c count du r ing the develo p- ment of new training programs sponsored by i n terna tional organiz a tions and governments, if new programs are to be relevant to women. Additional sponsors of the WFUWO panel included the Co NGO NGO Committee on the Family, International Council of Women, and N a- tional Council of Women (USA) , and the event gathered a considerable audience. The involve - ment of the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations was viewed as particularly im - portant since most of the programs for the de - velop ment and improvement of t he lives of rural women in Ukraine are supported by international organizations and funds, yet the Ukrainian gov - ern ment, as pointed out by Ms. Suslova, has not formed to date a comprehensive vision and poli - cies for the revival or transformation of the v i l- lage. Also on March 1, later the same day, many of the participants and guests of the panel had an opportunity to continue the discussion about the status of women in Ukraine and the state’s co m- mitment to the principle of gende r equality at the 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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