The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
Meeting in a school classroom in Zimbabwe where mostly African and a couple of European women debate political strategies; one woman saying that they are denied the chance to build skills and influence, describes being blocked from advancing in her career; another woman discusses the problems with getting adequate maternity leave; another says that reforms are always "in the pipeline" but never get implemented; another talks about reforming tax laws to separate a woman's income from her husbands to give women greater autonomy over their finances.
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
Graphic of world map showing legal changes in women's economic equality in various parts of the world (note conspicuous absence of the U.S. among nations that guarantee women's rights to equal pay.
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
Cartoon where a man in a construction crane wolf-whistles at a leggy red-head woman on the street; women toil in a sewing factory while the bossman yells at them to speed up; at paytime, the man gets twice as much money as the woman.
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
Graphic shows wage inequalities, including 57% of men's income in manufacturing jobs in the United States.
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
British Journalist Beatrix Campbell saying there have been contradictory effects of equal pay laws, that the laws were passed with cynical intent; says the effects of the law in terms of money was little, but it encouraged women to fight for equality; says women need to gain political power to make the laws work.
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
South American women in an adult school.
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
Jane Goldsmith, an international education scholar says, that in most countries it is economically more logical to educate men than women, in strict educational terms.
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
Graphic shows gaps between male and female literacy in the world.
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
Jane Goldsmith, education scholar says that women and girls are starting to be more aggressive and successful in getting educations, which is changing the way education is administered.
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
UN Conference on the midway point of the Women's Decade, Copenhagen, 1980: Secretary General Kurt Waldeim sets an agenda to have a unity of purpose in achieving goals; graphic shows the points where the agenda of the Women's Decade had been coming short of success [i.e. all areas]; British Delegate Lady Young speaks on the issue of economic inequality between societies and the need for men to cooperate on advancing women's status.
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
Egyptian political writer Nawal Sadaawi saying that the women of the third world are exploited internationally and personally, it's hard to separate the international aspects of oppression without a complex understanding of feminism that Western feminists don't have because they live in affluent societies.
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
U.N. conference, 1980, a woman delegate from Guyana describes bitter experiences of powerlessness for women, urges women to unite to protest global economic inequalities; delegate Sally Mogabe of Zimbabwe says "independence" is contingent on the independence of Southern Africa within the world economy, urges struggle to free oppressed people of the world.
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
Egyptian political writer Nawal Sadaawi says that many delegates at the Copenhagen conference were upset that third-world women were calling for international solidarity of women against economic inequality among nations.
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
Host Susan Stamberg discusses the collection of statistics on the condition of women in the world, which had thus far not been translated into action.
The Woman's Decade: Beyond Beginnings
Street riot in Manila, Philippines, 1983: women factory workers on strike for living wages are beaten by the cops for trying to block the factory owner from relocating operations; First Lady Imelda Marcos addressing the U.N. conference, saying that the problems of women in a developing nation are inseparable from the larger political problems; Manila police trying to break up a human chain of striking women near a factory. Cops pull one woman by the legs but she won't let go of the hand of the next woman in line; injured and arrested protesters.