WOMEN GAIN SLOWLY IN HIGH U.N. POSTS
NEW YORK. The number of women in policymaking jobs here at United Nations headquarters has increased to six, with the appointment of Mrs Adelaide Sinclair, of Toronto, as a deputy executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund, says Mary Hornaday in the “Christian Science Monitor. ’ Mrs Sinclair’s appointment coincided with a renewed drive by the United Nations Status of Women Commission to get more women into high United Nations posts, but was unconnected with it. Mr J. A. C. Robertson, U.N. director of personnel, assured the 18-nation commission that he would assist in “ironing out prejudices that may have been acquired in former international administrations” while continuing to make appointments in accordance with “highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity” and on as wide a geographical basis as possible. Mr Robertson frankly told the women that the women candidates for jobs put forth by the 21 new U.N. member nations “did not make up in quality what they lacked in quantity.” With the appointment of Mrs Sinclair, the U.N. has two women at the director level. The other is Miss Julia Henderson, of the United States, who is director of the Bureau of Social Affairs under the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Above Miss Henderson and Mrs Sinclair in rank, are 21 under-
secretaries or officials of equivalent rank. In the highest professional rank, there are now four women at New York headquarters: Mrs Mary Tenison-Woods, of Australia, head of the Status of Women Section in the Division of Human P.ights; Miss Helen Seymour, U.S., senior officer in the Budget Division, Office of the Comptroller; Miss Martha Branscombs, U.S., chief Social Services Section. Social Welfare Branch; and Mrs Suzanne Forgues, France, chief of the French Section, Language and Meetings Service. At the Geneva U.N. headquarters, Mrs Ester Boserup, Denmark, a senior economic affairs officer, ranks with these four. At the present time, 2672 men and women work at U.N. headquarters in New York, of whom 1119 are women. In the category of clerks, stenographers, guides, and similar general service jobs, women hold the preponderance of jobs. On the delegate level, Dr. Uldarica Manas, of Cuba, is now in the unique position of heading her permanent delegation as charge d’affaires. As such, she is her country’s representative both in the General Assembly and on the Security Council.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 2
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