Women

Question 1

How have attitudes to women changed?

Answer 1

• Women could own property but when they married it passed to the husband. Very few women worked 15% in 1900.
• Lots of changes in 19th and 20th centuries. Women could keep own property when married (1882)
• Equal Pay Act (1970) and Sex Discrimination Act (1975) gave women full rights.

Question 2

Why have attitudes have changed?

Answer 2

• During the War women had to take on roles men usually did and they did them just as well.
• More women needed to work to afford things.
• The Suffragettes showed women no longer wanted to be treated badly.

Question 3

Catholic attitudes

Answer 3

• Men and women should have equal roles and rights in society. they do not think this is the case in Church leadership. They point to the fact that Jesus personally nominated Peter to be lead the Church therefore only men can be priests.
• Men and women created on same day in Genesis. Made in God’s image, so equal.
• Jesus’ apostles were all men and priests follow on from them.

Question 4

Traditional Protestant attitudes

Answer 4

• Evangelicals see men and women as having different roles so they can’t be equal in religion.
• Women bring up children and men provide for the family. Only men are church leaders.
• St Paul teaches that women should not speak or teach in church
• Men made before women in Genesis so they have more rights

Question 5

Modern Protestants attitudes

Answer 5

• Men and women are equal and they now have women ministers and priests
• Jesus treated women as his equal e.g. the Samaritan woman in John.4
• St Paul said women and men were equal in the eyes of God