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It outlines discrimination in education, family burdens, unequal wages, restricted access to influence, and violence including female circumcision, dowry deaths, and infanticide, while also noting how media and sex tourism treat women as commodities. 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JESUITS AND THE SITUATION OF WOMEN  \nIN CHURCH AND CIVIL SOCIETY  \nIntroduction  \n361 1. General Congregation 33 made a brief mention of the\"unjust treatment and exploitation of women. \" 1 It was part of a list of injustices in a context of new needs and situations which Jesuits were called to address in the implementation of our mission. We wish to consider this question more specifically and substantially on this occasion. This is principally because, assisted by the general rise in consciousness concerning this issue, we are more aware than previously that it is indeed a central concern of any contemporary mission which seeks to integrate faith and justice. It has a universal dimension in that it involves men and women everywhere . To an increasing extent it cuts across barriers of class and culture . It is of personal concern to those who work with us in our mission, especially lay and religious women.  \nThe Situation  \n362 2. The dominance of men in their relationship with women has found expression in many ways . It has included discrimination against women in educational opportunities, the disproportionate burden they are called upon to bear in family life, paying them a lesser wage for the same work, limiting their access to positions of influence when admitted to public life and, sadly but only too frequently, outright violence against women themselves . In some parts of the world, this violence still includes female circumcision, dowry deaths and the murder of unwanted infant girls. Women are commonly treated as objects in advertising and in the media. In extreme cases, for example in promoting international sex tourism, they are regarded as commodities to be trafficked.  \n363 3. This situation, however, has begun to change, chiefly because of the critical awakening and courageous protest of women themselves . But many men, too, have joined women in rejecting attitudes which offend against the dignity of men and women alike. Nonetheless, we still have with us the legacy of systematic discrimination against women. It is embedded within the economic, social, political, religious and even linguistic structures of our societies. It is often part of an even deeper cultural prejudice and stereotype . Many women, indeed, feel that men have been slow to recognize the full humanity of women. They often experience a defensive reaction from men when they draw attention to this blindness.  \n364 4. The prejudice against women, to be sure, assumes different forms in different cultures . Sensitivity is needed to avoid using any one, simple, measurement of what counts as  \n1 GC 33, D 1, n. 48.  \ndiscrimination. But it is nonetheless a universal reality. Further, in many parts of the world, women already cruelly disadvantaged because of war, poverty, migration or race, often suffer a double disadvantage precisely because they are women. There is a \"feminization of poverty\" and a distinctive \"feminine face of oppression. \"  \nThe Church addresses the situation  \n365 5. Church social teaching, especially within the last ten years, has reacted strongly against this continuing discrimination and prejudice. Pope John Paul II in particular, has called upon all men and women of good will, especially Catholics, to make the essential equality of women a lived reality. This is a genuine \"sign of the times. \"2 We need to join with inter-church and interreligious groups in order to advance this social transformation.  \n366 6. Church teaching certainly promotes the role of women within the family, but it also stresses the need for their contribution in the Church and in public life. It draws upon the text of Genesis, which speaks of men and women created in the image of God (Gn 1:27) and the prophetic praxis of Jesus in his relationship with women. These sources call us to change our attitudes and work for a change of structures . The original plan of God was for a loving relationship of respect, mutuality and equality between men and women, a","cbCaitzTPyFXueH3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitzTPyFXueH3","pdf",20498,"English","# Introduction\n# The Situation\n# The Church addresses the situation\n# The role and responsibility of Jesuits\n# Conversion\n# Appreciation","[{\"question\":\"What forms of discrimination and violence against women are described?\",\"answer\":\"The text highlights discrimination in education, unequal family burdens, lower wages, limited access to influential roles, and direct violence such as female circumcision, dowry deaths, and the murder of unwanted infant girls.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the document say the issue is central to contemporary missions?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes a growing awareness that integrating faith and justice requires addressing women’s unjust treatment as a universal concern cutting across class and culture.\"},{\"question\":\"How are Jesuits expected to respond to this situation?\",\"answer\":\"Jesuits are told to accept the challenge without pretending to speak for women, to contribute what they have learned, and to begin with personal and collective conversion so their witness supports equality in structures and practice.\"}]","JESUITS AND THE SITUATION OF WOMEN - Introduction - Conversion - Appreciation | PDF",1790655288,13]