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Eye on the world: International Women’s Day
In “International Women's Day: Is the pace of progress slowing?” The Christian Science Monitor reports that “the world ha[d] much to celebrate ... on the 108th annual International Women’s Day” last week, citing a “wide range of feminist milestones achieved over the past year.” However, the Monitor notes that women around the world still face many challenges, with “progress toward gender equality [slowing] in many places.”
Ideas on this subject:
From the Bible:
God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
—Genesis 1:27
From the writings of Mary Baker Eddy:
Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.
—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 516
Related articles from the Christian Science Sentinel:
In “Woman's Complete Identity”: “... each individual man and woman, created by God, is the full reflection of the one Father-Mother, divine Mind, and has the right to express all God’s qualities.” And “Every son and daughter of God expresses the vitality of eternal Life, the affluence of Truth, the creativity of Principle. Each of God’s children is indispensable to the full representation of the creator’s infinite nature, and has her (or his) place in the divine universe…. Through divine law each is guaranteed the opportunity to express her (or his) full potential as God’s idea.”
In “Woman is blessed, not cursed”: “... both female and male expressions of God’s nature have equal standing: Both are blessed and fruitful and have dominion.” And “Every man and every woman has a place at our Father-Mother’s table. And it is a place of deep and eternal dignity, dominion, productivity, and blessing.”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.