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375 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 1 (1968)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0375 and id is 1 raw text is: Women Around the World: An Introductory Comment By ALTHEA K. HOTTEL W HEN Robert Frost dedicated his book, A Further Range, to E.F. he inscribed it with these words: For what it may mean to her that beyond the White Mountains were the Green; beyond both were the Rockies, the Sier- ras and in thought the Andes and the Himalayas, range beyond range even into the realm of government and religion. He caught the spirit and the challenge for women today. In another part of the world, a dis- tinguished gentleman and government leader (who shall be anonymous) in speaking complimentarily to a large audience of women said: The role of women in a community is a most important one and no nation can af- ford to ignore it. Women are as vital to a nation's progress as its minerals, its rivers, and its agriculture. Harnessed and properly controlled, but treated with re- spect, they present a great and powerful force which can be used for the benefit and progress of the nation. Left to run wild, however, or simply ignored, they will be as locusts in the nation's cornfields. There was dead silence. The two points of view represent rather widely different attitudes which prevail today around the world about the social functions of women other than childbearing and homemaking. I have attended a number of seminars and meetings across the globe that chal- lenge women to use their highest abili- ties not only in their own interest, but for their families and countries as well. Groups of women from the Orient to the Atlantic, from Iceland to New Zea- land emphasize the words, our respon- sibility, as they speak about the de- velopment of their countries. At the same time, there are over 740,000,000 illiterates in the world, and most of these are women. High illiteracy and high levels of academic achievement ex- ist side by side among women. Conse- quently, one hears echoed and re-echoed, education is the key for women, and great progress has been made in educa- tion for women in many areas of the world, but still leaves much to be desired in others. Since the beginning of the century, population growth has been phenomenal and is threatening the very existence of Althea K. Hottel, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, was Dean of Women and Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1936 to 1959. She also taught and was the Academic Dean at Queens College, Charlotte, North Carolina. She served as the Director of the Commission on the Education of Women of the American Council on Education, 1953-1955, and was the author of that Commission's Report, How Fare American Women? From 1955-1961, Mrs. Hottel was the Representative of the United States on the Social Commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. 1

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