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Editorially, few U.S. newspapers defended the President's West German itinerary. "The victims and the butchers of Nazism are not equatable," observed the New York Times. Suggested the Boston Globe: "If Jimmy Carter or Walter Mon-dale had so ... befouled the dignity of the presidency . . . ridicule and sarcasm from right-wing sermonizers would still be echoing." But the press assault on the trip was not unanimous. "That some of the men buried at Bitburg were members of the SS . . . does not make the visit less proper," argued the Houston Post. "Those men are dead, killed fighting as regular troops . . . Death...
Underlying the celebratory tone was the fact that women's gains over the Decade, while uneven, have been encouraging. Women's literacy, life expectancy and level of schooling are up worldwide. In Africa, which has the globe's highest illiteracy rate, the percentage of women who can read and write grew from 18% to 27% between 1970 and 1980, and is expected to jump to 40% by 1990. "Education was only a word 15 or 20 years ago," said Barbadian Dame Nita Barrow, who organized the NGO forum. "Now you see women holding positions in banking, in their communities, women...
...show that women still shoulder more of the world's responsibilities but enjoy fewer of its benefits. Women perform two-thirds of the world's work but earn only one-tenth of its income and own only a hundredth of its property. They make up a third of the globe's official work force but are paid less than three-quarters of the wages men earn for similar jobs. Since few husbands do their share of the world's child-care and domestic work, women who are employed outside the home put in an exhausting double day. In Europe...
Many feminists consider a woman's most basic freedom to be the right to choose when and whether to have children, but that goal is still unrealized in large parts of the globe. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Kenya, where men's resistance to contraception has contributed to a stratospheric birthrate of 4%, the highest in the world. Birth control was a running controversy at the Nairobi meetings, where antiabortion groups and organizations opposed to artificial contraception clashed sharply with pro-choice and family-planning advocates. "Women must control their own fertility, which forms the basis for enjoying...
Compensation: Just don’t tell the Globe...