WOMEN

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32458, 19 November 1970, Page 4

WOMEN

The status of women is the subject of “More Than Fair,” a half-hour documentary on CHTV3’s programme next Tuesday afternoon. “More Than Fair” does not purport to expose or prosecute. Nor is it a call to amis. It is simply a visual document, with behind-the-scenes glances around the globe, at the many problems inherent in the status of women in the world today. Be it the case of astronaut Valentina Terechkova or of an Egyptian woman being initiated in family planning; of “states-woman” Indira Gandhi or of a wife’s struggle to lead a dual existence between home and office; be it Marie Curie and her exceptional career in days when a common concept held

that “women are not scientifically minded;” from outer epace to a small Mexican hamlet, we leam through “More Than Fair” that it is not so much "equality,” a controversial term, as “equity” which is the key to a woman's normal condition. It shows various aspects of women’s evolution, through education, to the place they now occupy in society. With increased participation in professional activities and growing responsibilities in the economy, politics, science and culture, they deserve to be recognised today as equal partners with men in world development. “More Than Fair” is adapted by Rex Keating from the original film of Jean Caivel and Francine Vande Wiele for Unesco.