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Albania
Union of Albanian Women
The Union of Albanian Women was another important mass organization.
The union was headed in 1990 by Lumturie Rexha, a member of the
Central Committee of the APL. Its tasks included controlling and
supervising the political and social activities of the country's
women, handling their ideological training, and leading the campaign
for the emancipation of women. This campaign, initiated in 1966
by Hoxha, had considerable success in securing equal social and
political rights for women. As part of the campaign, women from
the cities were dispatched to rural regions to explain to the
party's line on the role of women. By the late-1980s, women accounted
for 47 percent of the labor force and about 30 percent of deputies
to the People's Assembly. Women held responsible jobs at all levels
of government and received equal pay in most jobs. Nonetheless,
Albanian society remained behind the West in its attitudes toward
women and had a long way to go to achieve total equality for women
(see Traditional Social Patterns and Values, ch. 2; Women in the
Work Force, ch. 3).
Data as of April 1992
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