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...female-and 240 male-visitors attending the two-week International Women's Year Conference went home. As a parting gift to the women delegates of the U.N.-sponsored affair (TIME, July 7), the Mexican government passed out dolls in wicker baskets. Huffed Australia's delegate Elizabeth Reid: "It never crossed their minds to give them...
...year World Plan of Action designed to improve the status of the world's 2 billion women. The 48-page plan, like all U.N. resolutions, is not legally binding, but member nations are urged to incorporate it into their own political and economic programs. Australia's Reid worried that the new resolutions would wind up in the "bottom drawers of government...
...sponsored two-week-long conference neared its final days, the problems that beset women seemed all but irresolvable in the face of national conflicts. Soviet and Chinese delegates berated each other for sabotaging the war on imperialism. Other speakers denounced colonialism, apartheid and multinational corporations. Finally, Elizabeth Reid, Australia's outspoken chief delegate, objected: "The conference is treating women as irrelevant. We have not talked about women as such...
Indeed, the much-argued-over action plan will hardly be revolutionary. But then, as Reid emphasized, the world's women do not stand to benefit so much from economic or political revolution as "revolution in the heads of people." And, declared Krupsak, "That's what this conference is all about. It should be a massive consciousness-raising session...
Sipila and other women hope that their numbers may some day be more impressive in the U.N. and elsewhere. The International Women's Year Conference, they believe, will further that aim. Still, as an Australian delegate, Elizabeth Reid, pointed out: "There are some amongst us who believe that this conference will achieve very little, others who are concerned that it will be unnecessarily politicized." At week's end both of those possibilities seemed to be altogether probable...