Setting the Record Straight - How Women Lost Their Rights

The Catholic Church should get the lions share of the credit for raising woman’s status. Today’s women may still have have a way to go to recover status they held in the days of Eleanor Of Aquitaine. The Catholic Church was the insistent force that raised the status of women even in the early Christian era,. Some of those rights, such as the right own property, voting in assemblies, and to choose one’’s husband were gained rather quickly as soon as Catholics rose to ruling positions and the persecution of Catholics abated. What turned back the clock was the wrongly-praised Renaissance which re-instituted the Roman approach to law, unfortunately including the Patriarchal aspects.