Women rights and God.

wOw: What do you think is the greatest achievement in women's rights in your lifetime?

Gloria Steinem: A critical mass of people here and around the world no longer believe that biology should dictate women's lives, so any woman who tries to be fully human is defying God, Freud and nature -- and is crazy. That's huge! It affects everything. That's why there is now a global women's movement, including some men who see that pretending to be superior limits their humanity, too.Of course, consciousness changes a lot faster than power structures. We lose about six million lives every year just because they were born female -- that's due to infanticide, favoring boys with food and health care, deaths from female genital mutilation, sexual assault, dowry killings, domestic violence and the ideas enshrined in such terms as "crimes of passion" or "honor killings." There are also more enslaved people now than there were in the 1800s -- and sex trafficking plus sweatshops means that they're mostly women and children.This country is lagging behind just about every modern democracy in family-friendly work policies, national childcare and health care, sex education, contraception, maternal mortality, way behind in women in elected office -- you name it.But the big victory is that we know our fate can change, and we have more legal tools and local-to-global groups to do it. There are now several living generations of women -- and some men, too -- who realize that the sexual caste system is intertwined with every single thing we have to transform, from class and race and the idea that man should conquer nature to the violence in families that normalizes every other violence.


My thoughts:

In the always conscious pushing minds of our society, what promises do religious views and feminine rights have, when tied together? We are constantly changing our views on religion and religious doctrine or spiritual truth. It is now very acceptable to have women priests, pastors, spiritual leaders, and doctorate female theologians. On top of the push of women rights in society, is a sector devoted to the development of women in region, and their past, present, and future experiences. We are now asking very important questions that lead us to answers which strongly effect the roles women play spiritually. One important question, is about our concept of God, and what he tells us about the role of women. These questions, and so many more, push the boundaries of our conscious viewpoints on religion and what Roman Catholosism says about women's roles/inheritence/value.... They establish looser boundaries and thus open up more space for women and their eternal importance!!!