[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 100 (Monday, June 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6085]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                             WOMEN'S RIGHTS

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I join the gentleman from New Mexico in 
sending greetings, if that is what you could call it, to Aung San Suu 
Kyi who is still imprisoned in Burma. And I think when we look at this, 
if we look at many other issues affecting women all over this globe, we 
see that they are still not in very good shape.
  It is amazing because she was the daughter of a very prominent 
Burmese leader. Her people elected her to lead them and yet even though 
she has received the Nobel Prize, she has done all sorts of things, no 
one in that country has been able to break this incredible lock they 
have on her as they hold her under house arrest.
  But we can also look at China and the fact that they are not very 
happy about having this International Women's Symposium there. They 
seem to have thought it was a craft fair and did not have any idea that 
women were really going to come and talk about women's rights.
  And we saw a very interesting article in this morning's paper 
pointing out that for every courageous male raising a family alone in 
America, there are seven women doing the same thing, and child care and 
all of those issues that have impacted on single parents are not being 
dealt with.
  Things do not look very good, and we need to roll up our shirt 
sleeves and work on all of these issues.

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