12 March 2015, The Tablet

What on earth can complementarity actually be?


 
It was International Women’s Day last Sunday, which meant sadly the old dreary plod through the numbers to see that inequality between the sexes continues across almost every conceivable measure: women in global and national statistics do less well in health, wealth, basic freedoms and rights, access to education, to chosen employment, to leisure, to safety and to respect. Then there was the BBC documentary India’s Daughter, which should have been shocking but was not because we all know that many men (and some women) still believe that women are responsible for their own rapes and that often they were “asking for it”. And what is Holy Mother Church doing about it? Burbling on about “complementarity”, without even acknowledging that there are obvious pr
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