ABSTRACT
Two simple facts: women constitute 51.5 percent of the population of Hungary and 42.9 percent of the entire labor force. In the legislative setting, Hungarian women are far from occupying an even position with men. At the local council levels, 25.1 percent of elected members are women; at the district and county council levels, their ratio is 30 percent. In the general political life of the country, women are active participants: in 1970, more than 24 percent of the membership in the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party was composed of women. The advances made by women have been enormous, and their numbers in public life have grown continuously during the last 25 to 30 years. For instance, the number of women parliamentary representatives has increased from 19 in 1947 to 84 in 1974 and from five women members of the Central Committee in 1968 to nine in 1970. Among teachers, where women held more than 80 percent of the positions, only 13 percent of superintendents and principals are women.
