Changing Views on Gender Roles

Gender and Society

Content

• The effects of changing views of gender and gender roles on Christian thought and practice, including:

  • Christian teaching on the roles of men and women in the family and society

  • Christian responses to contemporary secular views about the roles of men and women in the family and society

Key Knowledge

• including reference to: o Ephesians 5:22–33

  • Mulieris Dignitatem 18–19

• the ways in which Christians have adapted and challenged changing attitudes to family and gender, including issues of:

  • motherhood/parenthood

  • different types of family