Discerning the call: In Catholic men’s religious orders, diversity brings new opportunities – and occasional friction
ELIZABETH E EVANS, of Religion News Service, reports on how religious communities are exploring different ways to mentor and walk alongside young men as they discern their calling…
Men and women
The male treatment of women has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately, and sometimes the church has been complicit in that. PICTURE: Tim Mossholder/Unsplash The Bible starts and finishes it’s discussion of males and females like this… “So God created humanity in his own image, in the image of God he created […]
Essay: The synod, the Pope and the ordination of women
PHYLLIS ZAGANO, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says allowing women only in management and not in ministry ignores church history…
Essay: Albania’s ghost towns – the crisis that caused the exodus
ANDI HOXHAJ, a lecturer in European Union law at UCL in London, explores – in article first published on The Conversation, why Albania is seeing a “constant exodus” of its citizens…
Moscow barbers describe fight for survival as mobilisation cuts staff and customers
Moscow, RussiaReuters Faced with a sharp drop in clients since Russia began mobilising men to fight in Ukraine, Moscow barber Artemiy Zolotorevsky is learning to cut women’s hair to keep his business afloat. With hundreds of thousands of men having joined the army or fled Russia in the last month, barbershops around Moscow are fighting […]
Ukraine conflict: More Russian men look to avoid military service, some lawyers and rights groups say
Reuters correspondents report on claims an increased number of young Russian men are looking to avoid the country’s mandatory military service amid the ongoing war in Ukraine in what illustrates the ambivalence in Russian society to the conflict…
Measuring equality
I’m a huge believer in equality between the sexes – in the beginning God created us male and female in His image; as Jesus and the apostles declared – females are coheirs and co-workers in the Kingdom. PICTURE: Eddi Aguirre/Unsplash One of the mistakes with our modern attempts at equality is that we determine equality based on […]
Divide or bind?
I’m a huge believer in equality between the sexes and certainly believe we haven’t arrived there yet. I’m not sure why, when it comes to this issue, we fall for such novice mistakes in our attempts to achieve a solution. PICTURE: Nick Fewings/Unsplash We know, we know that cooperation is much more effective than competition […]
“A striking blow” – COVID-19 costs women $US800 billion in lost income
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation The COVID-19 crisis cost women around the world $US800 billion in lost income in 2020, Oxfam said on Thursday, as it demanded steps to tackle gender inequality. Women, overrepresented in low-paid, precarious sectors like retail, tourism and food services, lost more than 64 million jobs last year, said the charity, a […]
Women finance firm directors earn 66 per cent less than men in UK, study finds
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Female directors at Britain’s biggest financial services firms earn 66 per cent less than their male counterparts on average, research showed on Monday, despite a rise in the number of women on company boards in recent years. Women board members made £247,100 on average per year while men earned £722,300 pounds, […]