STATUS OF WOMEN

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29824, 17 May 1962, Page 2

STATUS OF WOMEN

Commission’s Report

NEW YORK

The United Nations Commission of the Status of Women at its sixteenth session, held recently in New York, adopted a number of resolutions designed to advance the role of women in public life and in the service of their countries, to promote the universal acceptance of the principal of equal pay for equal work, and to ensure equality of inheritance rights of men and women.

One resolution expressed the hope that competent authorities will consider how to improve the vocational guidance and counselling, as well as the vocational and technical training, of women and girls.

The commission asked for a study on the most important approaches and facilities for assisting working mothers in child care, such as homemaking services, visiting nurses, day-care centres and nurseries.

It sought to have governments of member states of the United Nations and specialised agencies take all possible steps to make full use of services available under the United Nations regular and expanded programmes of technical assistance to promote the advance of the status of women in developing countries. Representation The commission—a 21member subsidiary body of the Economic and Social C uincil, was composed this y?ar of representatives from Argentina. Australia, China, Colombia. Cuba, Czechoslovakia. Finland, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Iran, Japan. Mexico, Netherlands, the Philippines, Poland, Spain, the Soviet Union, the United Arab Republic, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Numerous governmental observers and representatives of nongovernmental organisations also attended this session. The representative of the Secretary-General was Mrs Sophie Grinberg-Vinaver. chief of the United Nations Section on the Status of Women. The secretary to the commission was Miss Aline Fenwick (Australia).