WORLD SOCIAL WELFARE

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27961, 7 May 1956, Page 2

WORLD SOCIAL WELFARE

WOMEN IN EXECUTIVE POSITIONS Advances in social welfare achieved at the instance of women are reviewed in the newsletter of the International Federation of University Women. The newsletter says: “Lately in Greece, largely owing to the energy and persistence of the Greek Association of University Women, in co-opera? tion with other women’s organisations, a new law has been passed abolishing all discrimination in the publicservices; women are admitted to the diplomatic service, judiciary and auxiliary military and police services. The questions of equal pay. opportunities for employment in the public services, adequate woman membership of committees and commissions dealing with education, public health and similar subjects, figure prominently in the work programmes oi the associations. In their reports the list of women, holding high office in the civil service, in local government, public health and welfare, educational services, in serving as elected representatives in legislative assemblies, grows larger and makes it impossible to compile even a short list." The newsletter says that in the United States. Mrs Katherine E. White, a former treasurer of the American Association of University Women, has been appointed chairman of the New Jersey High Authority, controlling the 300,000.000-dollar Garden City Parkway and other road projects. Dr. Marian E. Shea is now president of the Paterson State Teachers’ College in New Jersey. She is the third woman president of a State teachers’ college. Dr. Hottel, a former president of the American Association of. University women, has been appointed United States representative on the Social Commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. In the Netherlands, Mrs Schou-wenaar-Franssen has been appointed a member of the Royal Commission for the Organisation of Vocational Guidance; she is also the first woman registrar in Rotterdam; Dr. Josephine H. Kroesen has been appointed by royal decree the first woman judge in the county court of Utrecht. In Canada Judge Helen Kennear has been head of the Juvenile and Family Court Association and is the only woman’on the Royal Commission on the Criminal Law relating to Sexual Psychopaths, and also on that on the Defence of Insanity. Dr. Whitten has been re-elected Mayor yf Ottawa, and Miss Marian Royce has been appointed Director of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labour. In Japan, Miss Taki Fujita has been appointed chief of Women's and Minors’ Bureau. Ministry of Labour. In France, three woman have for the first time been appointed as respectively, Auditor at the Conseil d’Etat, and members of the Cour des Comptes. Finland has four women members of the Diet, and there is one woman member for the first time of the Court of Appeal and of the Supreme A.dministrative Court, and yet a third woman lawyer has been elected president of the International Federation of Women Lawyers.