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Woman Today
Women occupying Valuable mackinaw
top posts in United Nations
By Lisa Sergio
The struggle to achieve security and peace for mankind which, not too successfully, has in- volved peoples, governments, individuals and ideologies ever since the war came to an end four years ago, has caused at least two highly significant facts concerning women to omorgo into view.
One of these facts is that, in the industrialised society in which we of the modern world now live, woman is spared none of the hardships and costs of warfore and is affected as directly as mon by the moral, social and economic
unrest prevailing in the world today.
The more perceptive and pro-1 of the Rockefefeller Foundation, renkive men in public office, and later in Geneva, Switzerland. therefore, no longer ignore or dis-Founder of the Training Collego count the importance of woman for Pre-School Toaders organized На 蒜 weighty factor in public by the Swedish Co-operative opinion and
their part,
Mercura
1
Simultaneously she made major contributions to selal
progress
at the polis, On Housing Society, she served as ita women have come to rector from 1996 to 1948, realine that they must policy-making posts themselves in ardens to share the power and res- panability to make or prevent war in her country by serving on com- and to churt the course ahead.
missiona
concerned with child the innt four years, while progress care, population problems. the lina not been spectacular, it has training of the handicapped and been encouraging a well na in-educational reforms. Her work dicative of how much more women in nhi of refugees gave her a por. can do along there lines and of nonal understanding of social and how to do it.
buman problems cronted by war. and her direct contact with inter- The United Nations, as a young national groups was greatly en organisation, facing a nombor hanced appointments to represent en! new and unprecedented pro- the Swedish Government at 16 blems in establishing its own staff. number of international confer. Changes and revisions involving ences. the opening up of new positions and the elimutuation of others that have failed to prove their utility née necurring all the time.
Mrs. Myrdal was vice president of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women for nine years and hold positions of landership with women's labour
This belted allver satin mackinaw, shown with Boucheron'a
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The back of your head
By Sarah Langton
Statistics concerning the ap jatment an! employment of KUZIK and university Women's wunen are therefore bound to be associations in Soden. inaccurate as any the moment, and likewise, opportunities for Women in UN #ro constantly changing.
In general, it can be stated that the UN is chiefly concerned with the qualifications of the individu- and their work towards securing And there in front of us was als i appointe rather than with international poste which will a woman dressed to look like a their Mex. The UN htt also give them as much weight in the million dollars-the front view comply with certain other requiro- shaping of policy as Mrs. Myrdal's was stupendous -- but she apollt
ments, such as the geographical prosent high position in the Seere listribution of about 1,000 of its tariat of the United Nationa un- secretariat positions, and the fact questionably affords to her. that the Ainancial contribution made by euch member state to the support of the UN has consider- able bearing on the matter of posi- tions open to its nationals.
While it is not cany to find have become a hair-watcher!j overlapped
their Fashionable many women with qualifications And all because a friend revisit| built-up collars, and shoulders comparable to those which Mrs. ing England after an absence of were smothered in loose hairs. Alva Myrdai could offer, it is 12 years said to me in Oxford: But the last straw camo when nevertheless true that more Street; "Whut a lot of "Tally we took a bus and watched a women should direct their efforts, Tillies' we women are!"
woman in front of us fiddle with
Highest post ever
Role in assembly
the ragged ends of her hair for at least 20 minutes.
Something, I thought,
must
be done. So I went along to see it all by letting her hair strag- halr-stylist Allonse and begged gle like an unweeded gurden at him for a remedy. The hoir the back.
should be cut about 11⁄4 inches Bo we looked some more. And long, he told me. And it must Oxford-street
appeared to be follow the shape of the head. thronged with womch with un- As the "perm" has a shorter In the General Assembly the kempi backs to their heads, long life the back of the head if role of women is becoming increa- wisps were blown by the wind, must be waved there more fre- singly significant, It could be nope hair-lines looked like tem-quently, come equally Important In theperature graphs, page-boy bobs But, given these two "must" various councils, commissions and committees to which appointments are made not by the UN, but by member states.
Successful
women
Today the highest ranking woman member of the UN Secre tariat is Mrs. Alva Myrdal of
Women Sweden, principal director of the
having the prestige Department
Social Affairs, and outstanding qualifications of perhaps the highest post in Inter- some of those who are holding, or national Civil Service over held have held, positions of importance by a woman,
in UN-as, for example, Mrs. This department is responsible Eleanor Roosevelt of the United
There are few women direc- UN
Int programmes
Mira. auch States,
Vijaya Lakshini tors and producers in Britain's significant (elds
Pandit of India, Mrs. LE. Roberts human 63 rights, freedom Or Informa- of New Zealand, Mrs. S. 1. Him world. Two women who of Pakistan, Mrs. Bodll have succeeded, nevertheless, press. migra- Begtrup of Denmark, Mrs. Marge in obtaining such posts of which LKIN and population, penal
Klompe of the Netherlands, Mar- there is almost a masculine
for
tion
tlon and of
the
na.in
Marjorie Deans.
questions and the controigaret Bowlo of Great Britain, monopoly, are Freda Stock and of narcotic drugs. Mrs. Myrdal, Mrs. Marlo Helene Lefaucheux of who is universally known as a 50- Franco-can be immensely influ ciologist, writer and educator, has ential and effective. brought to her post exceptionally In order to co high qualifications
more women
Freda is producing and Mar- Jorie directing a romantle comedy
of life on the River Thames call-
and a varied gain such appointments from their "The Girl is Mine" for distri- back-ground of practical expert respectiva governments, it
ence in fields which now come into necessary for women's her officiul province.
is
ed
organisa- bution by Korda's British Lion
A vivnelotta' blonde mother di tions, to study the particular att Company. Miss Stock was once tudea and conditions existing a script-writer for Gaumont Bri- himself enjoys international fame, and support their fellow country- three children, wife of a man who within each nation and to help tigh and Ellas Doans was formerly assistant to producer Gabriel Dr. Gunnar Myrdal executive women to meet specific require Pascal, secretary to the UN Economie ments. Commission for Europe, sho The road claims to have found the raising posts is neither short nor easy. Miss Deans said that both jobs of a family particularly useful in Women have already travelled a were strenuous and one needed
Asked why there were so few
to policy-making women directors and producers,
--good shaping and good per- manent waving-all you need is
regular upward brushing keep it in perfect order.
to
One other point it is caster to keep the back of your hair
tidy if it is swept across, follow- ing the shape of the head.
Renommée
resses
her planeer work to develop a the-good part of it. They can make to be strong to stand up to them. CHRISTMAS SALE ory of social polley which lays em- further progress by directing ae- phasis on the family. The success tion on the one hand toward in-
Sho and Miss Stock aro plan- of her pioneering is shown by the creasing
ning zeries of pictures, the opportunities for do not wish them to be consider-
but they ALL PRICES REDUCED BY advanced social service pro training and experience opon to gramme, of Sweden, which la con- women in each country, and, on they want men to like them too
ed as
as "women's pictures" because sidered one of the beat in the the other, towards kooping close They are enthusiastle about the world.
watch on vacancies in the vari work of the feminine star who Mrs. Myrdal graduated from ous departments, agencies and the University of Stockholm in branchos of the United Nations in ppears in their Arst one, 1924, studied at American univer- order to be able to suggest highly 100 23-year-old recruit from aities in 1920 and 1930 as a follow qualified women to fill them.
television named Pamela Deem- Ing.
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