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Human Resources Unemployed and Underemployed You Too Can Participate in International Women's Year 1975 What Is Affirmative Action? Know Your Schools - (Do You?) Public Workshop on Sex Bias in Education Are Empty Jets Flying to the West Coast Burning Up Fuel? State Convention - May 16-17 (tentative) Board News Congratulations on their Successful Elections to LWVers Know Your Schools Questionnaire

You Too Can Participate in International Women's Year 1975 International Women's Year has been proclaimed by the United Nations as a call to action to promote equality between men and women; to integrate women into the total social and economic development effort of nations; and to recognize women's increasing contribution to strengthening world peace. The Year came into being because, despite decades of progress in eliminating discrimination against women, in no country have they attained full equality; and because of growing global recognition of the importance of women in nation-building. A wide variety of needs confront women around the world. They range from improving the lot of rural agricultural workers to securing equal access to policy-making positions. There are, however, many common concerns. Chief among them is lack of opportunity and adequate preparation for the full participation of women in their respective societies. Although women constitute more than one-third of the world's gainfully employed labor force, they are in most countries concentrated in unskilled and low-paid jobs. Women's access to high-level, well-paid jobs is limited. In the majority of countries, only a small percentage of women hold policy-making posts - whether legislative, judicial or executive. In the U.S., the President's Council of Economic Advisors reported in 1973 that while 43.8 percent of working age women were employed, they were clustered in low-status jobs, and their pay averaged only 66.1 percent of men's wages. The biological symbol for woman, the mathematical sign for equality and the dove: The IWY 1975 emblem illustrates the determination to help women - half of the world's population - to participate on every level in the solution of the world's problems. "The full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women as well as men in all fields." - From the Preamble of the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

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