"The strengthening of women’s power means wage parity for the same kind of work, impartiality in career promotions for women, and married women’s parity within family rights. Moreover, it means that women deciding to be wives and mothers must be protected and not penalized": it was stated yesterday in New York by Archbishop Celestino Migliore, papal nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See, during his speech on the 61st Session of the General Meeting of the United Nations on the promotion of parity and the strengthening of women’s power. Msgr. Migliore pointed out that often "the concept of parity of rights for men and women has been characterized by an antagonistic approach, emphasizing opposition between them". It was an approach "opposing women to men and vice versa, while the identity and the role of one were underlined just to diminish the identity and the role of the other". "Success in the request of parity and strengthening of women’s power he emphasized can just be achieved if such antagonism is capable of finding the right path for mutual respect and acknowledgement of the identity and the role of one with respect to the other". A second trend, added Msgr. Migliore, is "to obscure, or even fully deny, the differences between men and women".
