Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 1980
Abstract
In May 1980, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) invited twelve "experts on research and teaching related to women" to a special meeting in Paris. The experts were Julinda Abu Nasr, Director of the Institute of Women's Studies in the Arab World (Lebanon); Alya Baffoun, Center for Economic Study and Research (Tunisia); Teresita Barbieri, Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Uruguay); Lil Despradel, sociologist (Dominican Republic); Florence Howe, Professor of Humanities, State University of New York/College at Old Westbury (United States); Herta Kuhrig, Director of the Forschungsgruppe of Women under Socialism of the Academy of Knowledge of the DDR (German Democratic Republic); Margherita Rendel, Research Lecturer in Human Rights and Education, University of London (United Kingdom); Marie Angelique Savane, President of the Association of African Women for Research and Development (Senegal); Madhuri R. Shah, Vice-Chancellor of the S.N.D.T. Women's University in Bombay (India); Christiane Souriau, Secretary-General of the Center for the Study of Women, University of Provence (France); Zenebeworke Tadasse, Secretary-General of the Association of African Women for Research and Development (Ethiopia); and Mair Verthuy, Director of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University (Canada). Below, we reprint the document produced by this group of experts.