[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 201 (Friday, October 17, 1997)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 54335-54336]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-27814]
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Part IV
The President
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Proclamation 7041--International Rural Women's Day, 1997
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Proclamation 7041 of October 15, 1997
International Rural Women's Day, 1997
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Our world has been continually uplifted and renewed by
the contributions of women. Women of courage and
conscience, women of strength and compassion, women of
vision and talent have enriched every aspect of
international society. In our own Nation, the names of
such extraordinary individuals as Harriet Tubman, Susan
B. Anthony, Jane Addams, Rosa Parks, Dolores Huerta,
and so many more, are etched on our history and in our
hearts. But there are millions of other women who live
and work among us whose names will never be known, but
whose efforts and energy contribute profoundly to the
quality of our lives. Rural women are numbered among
these many quiet heroes.
Today rural women comprise more than one-quarter of the
world's population, and they form the basis of much of
the world's agricultural economy. In the United States,
working on farms and ranches, they play a vital part in
ensuring a healthy, safe, and abundant supply of food
and fiber for our people. In developing countries, as
small farmers, laborers, and entrepreneurs, rural women
help produce most of the food, create many of the jobs,
and manage most of their countries' natural resources.
While millions of rural women worldwide live below the
poverty level, struggling to survive with scarce
resources and little training and education, they still
manage to feed their families and contribute to their
communities.
When the international community came together in
Beijing in 1995 for the Fourth United Nations World
Conference on Women, rural women made their voices
heard by world leaders, and their hard work and
sacrifice were at last recognized by people across the
globe. Next year, when the United States hosts the
Second World Conference on Women in Agriculture, we
will continue to focus on the status of rural women and
their contributions to our world.
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United
States, do hereby proclaim October 15, 1997, as
International Rural Women's Day in the United States. I
call upon the American people to observe this day with
appropriate programs and activities in recognition of
the extraordinary contributions rural women make to the
quality of our lives, both in America and around the
world.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and ninety-seven, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and twenty-second.
(Presidential Sig.)
[FR Doc. 97-27814
Filed 10-16-97; 11:12 am]
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