Chatham College President Esther Barazzone - "One
thing that has come home to American feminists after Beijing is that you cannot view
women's issues thought the lens of Western women only." (John Beale, Post-Gazette) |
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Five years after the U.N. Commission on the
Status of Women sponsored the historic Beijing conference to identify and address the
needs of women around the world, the United Nations held a post-mortem.
Three thousand delegates, 7,000 members of
non-government organizations and armies of media gathered the week of June 4, 2000 in New
York at a U.N. General Assembly special session to determine whether the 1995 Beijing
conference made a difference.
Here is the Post-Gazette coverage of the
2000 conference and stories assessing the progress women have made over the past five
years -- at the local, state, national and international levels -- on 12 key issues
identified in Beijing:
Looking back so they can move ahead
For those who took
part, the changes were profound
Issue One - Women in poverty:
Help
for women in poverty gets a failing mark
Sheila Bass:
Struggling to rejoin the workforce
Issue Two - Women and
Education:
Schools here begin to
offer wider horizons for women
Claire Sadar: A boost
in science and math
A call for action: Talk
is not enough
Issue Three - The Girl
Child:
Programs to help girls in
U.S. found mostly in private sector
Brandy Jackson:
Program for girls takes jackhammer to stereotypes
Issue Four - Women and
Health:
Gender-specific
medicine taking hold
Juanita Simmons:
Learning to take control of her health
Issue Five - Human Rights:
Sex trafficking a
growing outrage
Alexis Bills: Teen
teaches concern for human rights
Issue Six - Women and Power:
Working women have more
clout, but pace is slow
Kim Pizzingrilli:
Women struggle for better posts in state offices
Issue Seven - Women and
Violence:
Women still are victims
of violence
Violence against
women down
Jozita Williams:
Starting young helps parents prevent violence
Issue Eight - Women and the
Environment:
Environment troubles
worse for women than men
Beverly Braverman:
Mom takes pro-water stand
Many women worrying
final report will be weak
Albright laments women's
conference schisms
Issue Nine -
Women and Institutions:
Government efforts
have helped a lot, women's groups say
Programs, agencies in
place to aid women
Issue Ten
- Women and the Economy:
City, state lag in
equal pay, upward mobility
Linda Wambaugh: She
makes the underpaid her business
Issue
Eleven - Women and Armed Conflict:
Wartime rapists
being prosecuted in international court
Dr. Sajma Suler:
Johnstown doctor intimately familiar with issue of war and women
Issue
Twelve - Women and the Media:
Women rising higher
in television, radio
Nancy Hahn: Opening
of low-power TV spectrum opens door
Women's conference
breaks no new ground
Women's parley reaffirms
1995 goals
Related Internet Resource Guide:
Beijing
Plus Five Web Site
Beijing
+5 Women 2000
United Nations Development
Fund for Women
Beijing +5 -- UNIFEM
Five Years After
-- Human Rights Watch
Women's Human Rights -
Amnesty International-USA
Institute for Women's Policy Research
Women Watch
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