Huambo, 13 March, 2024 / 1:22 pm (ACI Africa).
Except for jobs that require physical exertion, women can thrive in professions where men currently dominate, the Archbishop of Angola’s Huambo Archdiocese has said, calling for the creation of spaces and opportunities for women to emerge in Church and society.
In his homily during thanksgiving Mass to mark the end of the Women Week in his Metropolitan See, Archbishop Zeferino Zeca Martins said the woman “must be at the man's side in everything.”
“We need to create spaces where women can emerge, where they can express their talents, where they can demonstrate their self-esteem through initiatives,” Archbishop Zeca said during the March 10 Eucharistic celebration at Our Lady of the Conception Cathedral of Huambo Archdiocese.
During the event which members of the Association for the Promotion of Women in the Angolan Catholic Church (PROMAICA) organized, the Angolan member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) said, “Women, first of all need to esteem themselves and that allows them an equal place in society with men.”
“Yes, perhaps there are those jobs that by physical configuration, by biological nature, are reserved exclusively for men, those jobs of physical effort, yes, that's what the Creator wanted. But any kind of work that requires intelligence, that requires tact, that requires humanism, that requires affection, the woman must be at the man's side in everything,” the Archbishop said.
