She can keep members of the family united through her continued effort of mediation. And even this obvious fact appears in brackets in par. Women and education Access to education, on all levels, is a focal point in the liberation and promotion of women. Education is the prerequisite for access to employment, to personal autonomy and to complete participation in economic, social and political life. In a respectable social and cultural context, women do not need to have children simply to guarantee their own future.
Education is the road that averts poverty.
The Holy See cannot fail to cite in this area its own experience down the centuries, and it is still active today in more than 300,000 social welfare institutions worldwide, many of these specializing in the education of women of all cultures and religions. The ideological imbalance present in the Platform for Action is more evident in the chapter devoted to health. The document gives preference to sexually transmitted diseases or those which refer to reproduction. These represent only one part of women's health problems. The greatest limitation in the measures proposed is that women's health is considered in a reproductive context only.