Editorial March 25, 1972 Issue

Woman's Complete Identity

Naomi Price

An unmarried woman, or one who is faced with being on her own after years of happy marriage, could be on the brink of a great discovery. She could find that, far from being deprived, her life is full, completely enjoyable, useful, and entirely satisfying.

Until comparatively recently, in most countries a woman has had a limited social and legal status. A hundred years ago a Justice of the United States Supreme Court wrote in a decision, "The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator."^{The New York Times, November 23, 1971;} The implication was that a woman who had never been a wife and mother—or who had ceased to be one—had no mission, no position or purpose in society. This was a common concept of womanhood.

Such a concept of woman's role in the human universe is increasingly being recognized as a gross misrepresentation of the spiritual truth. Christian Science is in the forefront of the battle for women's freedom from such restriction. It maintains that 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. It shows that the theory of woman's status as merely half an individual is erroneous. This theory is founded on the false belief that woman owes her existence to the material, finite sense of creation (typified in Genesis as Adam) rather than to God, the infinite, divine Mind, the actual creator of all.

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