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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Adami, Rebecca

Titel

The San Francisco Conference: A Call to All Women

Ist Teil von

• Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2019, Vol.32, p.8-18

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter sets the scene for the San Francisco Conference and the controversies that needed to be solved at the drafting of the UN Charter. In this chapter, the only woman delegate in the United States delegation to the San Francisco Conference, Virginia Gildersleeve, is presented with her work as Dean for the all-female college Barnard. Gildersleeve was the first appointed female on Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential campaign and opposed the Equal Rights Amendment to the American Constitution, which she felt to be discriminatory of women. The United Kingdom wanted to postpone the San Francisco Conference, but Franklin Roosevelt was convinced that the earlier the San Francisco Conference was held the better. The overarching focus on issues covered by worldwide media from the San Francisco Conference concerned the undemocratic structure of the Security Council, perceived as the most influential force in maintaining world peace in the new organization. The influence over the agenda at the San Francisco Conference showcased in many ways where the countries’ alliances had lain during the Second World War. In the American delegation to the San Francisco Conference, there was one female delegate, Virginia Gildersleeve, Dean at the Barnard College, an all-female college in New York. When Virginia Gildersleeve is asked by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be representative of the American delegation to the San Francisco Conference, she has been Dean at Barnard for many years – a position she holds in 1945.