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Show AB_ World’s Women Work More And Earn Less @ Continued from A-1 men hold 1@ percent of congressional seats, even though make up 53 percent ofeligible voters, The average female wageis three-fourths the male wage in the nonfarm sector in 55 countries “The male community is going to hate us,”’ Haq, himself a man, said. “It came out, in country after country, that women do 53 percent of the total work and men do 47 percent.” To judge the total contribution of women, the researchers estimated the value of such unpaid work as child care, housework and farm laborat $16 trillion for both genders. About $11 trillion of that was performed by women. “Women do the workthat holds societies together, and yet it is persistently under- respected,” said Leslie Wolfe, head of the Center for Women Policy Studies. “If women’s work were accitrately reflected in national statistics, it would shatter the myth that men are the main breadwinners of the world,” added Haq. Thereportcalls for a campaign to ratify and carry out the i979 U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The United Mom Gets Only Norplantfor Raped Daughter DALLAS MORNING NEWS DALLAS — In May 1992, an 11-year-old girl told her mother | she had been raped by her stepfa| ther. Instead of reportingit, the | womanreportedly had her daugh‘ ter fitted with Norplant, a surgi| cally implanted device that prevents pregnancies. | Officers say the girl then was | raped repeatedly by the unem| ployed man overthree years. It is not uncommon in child sexual-abuse cases for the nonoffending parent to deny, ignore 1 or even consent to abuse in the home, experts say. ' But allegations that Norplant '| was usedin an 11-year-old tc keep | sexual abuse a secret stunned po| lice investigators and child-abuse \| experts. “You could seethelittle tubes” in the girl's arm, said Dallas po| lice Det. Arleen Martinez. She | said the case had left her “just jisgusted.”” | “I've never heard of anything | like this,” said Deborah Daro, research director of the National Committee to Prevent Child | Abuse in Chicago. “It’s a totally inappropriate reaction.” Health professionals sey there are no age restrictions on Norplant use andthat clinics are allowed to implant the device ia minors with parental consent. Both parents were arrested Saturday, and the couple's six children — as young as 2 mnths and as old as the 14-year-old victiin — were placed in temporarThe 39-year-old man was beit held in a Dallas Countyjailin lieu of $105,000 bail. The girl’s 29-year-old mother, who told police she is unemployed, was charged with failure to report child abuse. She posted ‘a $500 bond and was released ' from jail Tuesday, then was reunited with her 14-year-old | daughter, The adults’ names are being withheld toprotect the girl's iden- ___TheSalt Lake Tribune NATION/WORELD Friday,August 18, 1985 States has not ratified this char. ter. The report alse proposes form- HRC’s China Trip: Go or No? Human Development index e “Human DevelopmentIndex" (HDI) measures the average oe of a country in basic humancapabilities. ing 4 monitoring group to “focus on key instances of unequal laws, unequal wage rates for equal work andsocial or legal indifferenceto violence inst women.” Oneof the report's most urgent recommendations is for an ex) it com.nitment to bring cases of “mass rape and torture of wo: men” before an internationaltribunal: “It is intolerable that the use of mass violence against women as 8 weapon Of war... is not considered a war crime.” And unless more women in developing countries have access to family-planning information and contraception, they wili to have numerous children they cannot support, further weakening global economicstability. Country LOS ANGELES TIMES Real GOP Life expectancy Aduit literacy rate per capita®, : ai birth On the positive side, the report notes that “female life expectancy has increased 20 percentfaster than male life expectancy over the past two decades” andthat “in adult literacy and school enrollment, the gaps between women and men were halved between 1970 and 1980 in developing countries.” 173 SierraLeone 39. 46. | 174 Niger | 820 purchasing power US. ‘Figures are from 1992, =)ee The Associated Press WASHINGTON -— The advance igams have been laying the groundwork for Hillary Rodham Clinton in Asia. The U.S. State Department has been cranking out briefing materials on China for her to read. But with only two weeks to go, the Clinton administration still hasn't decided whether the first lady should attend the U.N. Conference on Womenin Beijing. The deeision has beex swept up in the cross-currents of American relations with China — and in intense domestic polities. The focus of debate is whether Clinton’s participation would undereut U.S. efforts to obtain the freedom of Harry Wu — the Chinese-American human-rights activist who had helped U.S.television networks uncover widespread abuse of prison labor in China and who was arrested on charges whenhetried to sneak into China once again last June. Clinton’s attendance at the Beijing women's conference “would unfortunately communicate the perception that she’s Bnconcerned with Harry’s fate, which is untrue,” says Jeff Fiedler of the AFL-CIO. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., maintains that Clinton's presence © ‘would give the repressive Chinese regime an unprecedented propaganda vic- tory.” Proponents counter that the administration ought to give higher priority to improvingits troubled ties with China. “] don’t think it’s wise to aliow the fate of one individual, who imewthe risks he was running, to bethesole determinant of ourrelations with China,” says Arthur Hummel, former U.S. Ambassador to China. 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