"For women to be really promoted, the approach can no longer be by separating the feminine from human reality; now the feminine must be understood, based on an anthropology that recovers the value of the person and emphasises the relation between the feminine and the masculine, stressing each one’s specific character". This is the presentation of the international conference on "Men and women, the humanum in its entirety” due in Rome from 7th to 9th February to commemorate the 20th anniversary of John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter "Mulieris dignitatem". The conference promoted by the Papal Council for the Lay aims at drawing a balance of the progress that has been made over the last 20 years in the area of the promotion of women and the recognition of their dignity. In addition, the event means to "start reflecting, in the light of the Revelation, on the new cultural paradigms and the difficulties which women have to face to live their own identity and cooperate in a fruitful mutuality with men in the building of the Church and society" and to "remind women of the beauty of the calling to holiness, encouraging them to respond to it with increasing awareness" and as the "protagonists" of the mission of the Church, to put at the service of the apostolate, the family and the job world "all the assets of feminine talent".
