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Show Women Around the World Work Double That of Men By NICK LUDLNGTON Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS CAP) -The last 10 years have not fully eased women of traditiunal burdens and they still face discrimination in many areas of world society, according to a report drawn up for the United Nations Decade for Women that ends this month. It described as still valid a statement written at a confer- - the world's women said that in 12 countries a woman must still seek her husband's approval if she wants to take a job. The report noted no consistant increase during the decade of women's participation in politics. A sampling of developing countries in various regions, including Venezuela, India and Kenya show women with only 6 percent of places in government. Women also are still under- - While women represent 50 percent of the world's population, they perform nearly two-thirof all working hours, receive only one tenth of the world income and own less than one percent cf world property. ds ence in Copenhagen Denmark, halfway through the decade: "While women represent 50 percent of the world's population, they perform nearly of all working hours, receive only one tenth of the world income and own less than one percent of world property." A 1985 report on the state of two-thir- ds represented in managerial nn n 3 iTLxiZl Tupsdyv Julv uvu-J(3i- f' AI3 PAX & AND In Pakistan, village women work 63 hours a week on family and household chores. Women do 60 to 80 percent of Women who work are still expected to do domestic chores In the developel countries it is estimated that women spend 56 hours a week on domestic chores In the developing countries it can be more, for instance 63 hours in Pakistan, according to a U.N. study. Another report showed that in Italy 85 percent of married women with children who had outside jobs are married to men who do no domestic work at all Another disclosed that in a village in the African nation of Rwanda, the men tend banana s trees. But women do of the other agricultur- hlCH CUAUTY PLANTS ANDTCCLS Color Soots three-quarter- al work and all domestic chores. In this village women Jo three times as much work as posi- tions. In Indonesia and Bangladesh, for instance, only I percent of managers are women. In the United States, Norway and Australia men outnumbered women as managers and administrators 3 to 1 while women were five times as likely to be working as the agricultural work in Africa twice as much as African men. In 1950, women held 31 percent of the world's jobs; today they hold 35 percent. While boys outnumber girls at school worldwide, girls are edging forward slightly faster in the race toward literacy. On average, women live six years longer than men in the industrialized world and two years longer in the developing world. Males outnumber females by 20 million around the world. The U.S. Opposes Declaration To Eliminate Zionism, Apartheid By JERRY GRAY Associated Press Writer The NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) United Nations Decade for Women, launched in Mexico City 10 years ago to improve conditions for women around the world, comes to Womens an end during the Conference. Three thousand delegates have equaconverged on this mile-higtorial city to grade the progress of women since 1975 and to devise g in strategies for their the decades ahead. U.N. reports on the decade say - 11-d- h, well-bein- the last 10 years have brought recognition of problems faced by women and advancement in many areas. Nevertheless, discrimination of various kinds and degrees remains in world societies and not all women have been relieved of burdens place on them by tradition over the centuries. Now, as the U.N. effort nears its South end, older political issues African apartheid, the Palestinians, the new international economthreaten to disrupt the ic order third and final world forum for women's views. "There are issues which will never be agreed (upon) here," said Kenneth Maiiba, Kenya's culture minister and head of the host delegation. "But those issues are issues which have probably been discussed during the last 40 years of the existence of the United Nations. It would be rather naive of anybody to be so optimistic that those issues are to be agreed upon here in Nairobi this month." In the months leading up to the 6 sessions at the Kenyatta July Conference Center, there have been complaints from all sides that the conference was becoming "politicized" at the expense of the women's issues it should address. Delegations long ago split into the three traditional blocs East, West and the Group of 77.' The last is made up of representatives from developing nations. The United States has led the Western bloc in arguing that "extraneous political issues" would unnecessarily bog down the conferas evidenced by the 1975 ence conference in Mexico City and the e conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. "If we debate an issue that is being debated in the United Nations or in disarmanment conferences, we rob women," Maureen Reagan, head of the U.S. delegation and daughter of President Reagan, said. But those who argue for inclusion of such issues on the agenda maintain that they are legitimate concerns of women. The main working document of the inaugural conference in Mexico City was a draft convention calling for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. In 1979, the U.N. General Assembly adopted the document as a world-wid- e 15-2- mid-decad- convention, but only 60 of the world body s 159 members had ratified it as of late last year. The United States has not. The Mexico City conference also adopted a declaration on the equality of women and their contribution to development and peace. That document is the basis for the theme of the Nairobi conference equality, development and but it also has brought peace about many of the differences now threatening to undo the conference. Among the declaration's articles was one calling for "the elimination of colonialism, foreign occupation, Zionism, apartheid and racial discrimination in all forms. ..." The United States opposed the declaration because of its equation of Zionism with racism. Nevertheless, the document was adopted by an overwhelming majority. During the women's conference in Copenhagen, the Palestine Liberation Organization used its status as an official observer to get a controversial clause included in the meeting's only official document. The clause asked that all governments and international organizations assist Palestinian women "in consultation and cooperation with the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinians." The United States, which does not recognize the PLO and has steadfastly refused to talk with the group, vehemently opposed the inclusion of the item, but again lost. It was only at the Copenhagen conference that it was decided that a decade closing conference should be held and Nairobi was selected. To head off any more items counter to Washington's thinking slipping into the Nairobi conference documents, the United States has insisted that the final statement at Nairobi be decided by consensus, not by majority vote. In New York, the U.N. Economic and Social Council voted, 36-on June 20 to leave the issue to the conference here. The United States and Iceland cast the two votes against the decision and 12 West European nations abstained. The Group of 77, which now actually numbers 124, could easily control voting at any U.N. conference. But the group said at the New York meeting that it would accept a rule calling for a majority vote in Nairobi. The United States has hinted that it would withdraw its about delegation and its money 25 percent of the total conference if "extraneous political budget issues" are given too much weight. Victor Jackovich, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy there said, "No one is saying you had better not bring up Palestinian women, or the U.S. is going to pull out of the conference. What the U.S. is saying is don't let the conference become bogged down with these two-thir- issues." , GARDEN CENTERS secretaries or clerks. men. The state of women report said the situation is "unjust because it means that women around the world end up working twice as many hours as men.' "It is unjust because they are not paid for those hours of the final insult work. And it is unjust because domestic work is looked down on as not bebeing 'real' work at all cause it is unpaid." Worldwide, Housewife Could Claim $14 00 Annual Domestic Salary Women Report 1985, drawn up in connection with the United Nations Decade for Women, which is now coming to a close. If housewives demanded payment for domestic work they could reasonably claim a salary of more than $14,500 a year. 19 SOTT 4" pot. Aad a splash of instant color your yard or garden. in anywhere r kitcviun ( v SS3 U 1 -- P J II 0 HbthoI Diazim kSKt Contra UUUlMi 11 S"stnic Raid i Flovwt I Cot 1 uiazinon bisect Spray By the ASSOCIATED PRESS Here are some facts and figures from the State of the World's Page Open 9AM to 1GPM 7 Days A Week Good West., July 17 thru lues., July 30, 1335 HOME IMPROVEMENT CThO THE HERALD. Provo, Utah, 1985 16 V United States, the Soviet Union and Europe have considerably more females. The sexes more or less balance out in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. Males predominate in other parts of Asia and North Africa. Systemic RoseFlower Care 2477 Diazinon SoU planned economies and in some parts of Scandinavia. But in most other parts of the world one woman serves to every 10 men. peStS. s u 2591 Diazinon Insect Spray Kill insects on lawns, trees and in your 1762 garden. 32 oz. Easy to coil a , year round. Burst resistant, double reinforced for extra strength. SAVE 4.11 Reg. 10.99 j I I ' tose w f, U I X Reg. 13.99 Win the war against weeds and 1 SAVE 3. 02 99 : 4.02 SAVE y : jao?'-'-unwante' grass 3.02 fleg. 12 99 SAVE L.1912 JPSfillSv 59 Weed Eater By NICK LUDINGTON Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) -Surveys show that 90 percent of all nations now have official bodies dedicated to the advancement of women, half of them established during the United Nations Decade for Women, which is now ending. 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