New York City, N.Y., Mar 3, 2011 / 01:02 am
At the U.N.'s annual meeting on the global status of women, a Vatican observer stressed that the modern workplace should improve its accommodation of wives and mothers, who “have an irreplaceable role” in families.
True progress for women “requires that labor should be structured in such a way that women do not have to pay for their advancement by abandoning what is specific to them and at the expense of the family,” said Prof. Jane Adolphe, a member of the Holy See’s Delegation to Commission on the Status of Women.
Prof. Adolphe – an Associate Professor at the Ave Maria School of Law – spoke on behalf of Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the U.N. on March 1 at the 55th session on the Commission on the Status of Women in New York.
During her address, Prof. Adolphe called for the “promotion of women’s equal access to full employment and decent work” and for an increase in global access for women and girls to “education, training, science and technology.”