Women Don’t Count: The Challenge of Women’s Poverty to Christian Ethics

This work examines the dynamics through which women are marginalized and impoverished, and offers a constructive proposal for addressing women’s socio-economic vulnerability. Part One surveys the economic status of women globally and discerns both common threads of subordination and significant differences among women. Part Two reviews the social-justice positions of the Roman Catholic church and the World Council of Churches in light of this survey. Part Three identifies theoretical resources that adequately address women’s socio-economic vulterability. Brubaker advances her own theoretical approach, which illuminates and engages women’s impoverishment. She concludes with a discussion of how placing women’s economic condition at the center of Christian economic ethics would affect social analysis, economic policy, and social vision.