Are female bosses allowed?

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Yes, I knew that. The Church wouldn’t also have any problems with Queen Isabella of Castile.

However if you look at the more traditionalist websites, women should always be at home and confined to the domestic sphere.

A lot of these traditionalist websites teach doctrines that oppose official Catholic doctrine in spite of labeling themselves Catholic.
 
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In my grandparent’s day (South Wales Valleys) the mother was considered to be the manager of the home.

Most men worked in the mines - 10 hour days, six days a week. A husband was not expected to help out at home, except for heavy stuff. Kids would be allocated - by their Mam - suitable tasks.

A good husband would give his wife his unopened wage packet each week, and she would handle the finances; giving him pocket money!
 
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Sarcelle said:
The Church of England may not have a problem with her being the monarch but what about the Catholic Church?
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What about it? There are plenty of Catholic queens in history, including several canonizes saints.
 
That was how my parents did it.

My mom managed the household finance and she would update my father on the finances monthly but it worked very well, so well that my parents were able to retire early.
 
So this should tell the OP that the Church indeed didn’t have a problem with women holding authority.
 
How can you seriously ask this question. Have you never met a Catholic female “boss”.
The terms most people use are managers, supervisors, CEO’s executives, presidents etc.
my wife is a project manager over thousands of men and women.
 
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That was how my parents did it.

My mom managed the household finance and she would update my father on the finances monthly but it worked very well, so well that my parents were able to retire early.
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Different world in those days…and not always for the better. In the UK, it was WW2 that began the change for women; pulling them out of the home, and into factories. The rest, as they say…
 
But the industrial revolution started in the UK and weren’t women and children also employed in the factories?

The industrial revolution started earlier than World War II.
 
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I work for a family-owned health food store. My immediate boss is a woman. She has helped me immensely since my mom passed away.
 
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But the industrial revolution started in the UK and weren’t women and children also employed?
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Yes. Very often in shocking conditions. Kids and women working in mines - in my neck of the woods. Dragging drams of coal, or working between air doors, in total darkness…opening each door in turn to permit the passage of drams. Changes in the law put an end to that, and women became - in the main - housebound. There were exceptions, of course…‘women’s’ work, like nurses, maids etc.
 
I noticed this paradigm shift with the onset of Victorian sentimentality which invented the notion of women as the angel of the home and children as incorruptible innocents, especially among the rising middle class.

This was the start of the idea of husband as the head of the home with the wife as the heart.

Sentimental hogwash in my opinion.
 
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I think maybe this thread is being a little hard on the OP. He stated he doesn’t know much about Catholicism. He asked a question, we gave an answer.

The OP may very well have never met an actual Catholic in his life. There are areas of the US where Catholics are pretty rare.

I appreciate that we are all sick of the misogyny that often crops up here. I said so in a feedback thread a while back and got no response, which didn’t make me feel very good about being here to be honest because it’s like no one cares. But the OP might just be genuinely un-knowledgeable.
 
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With us - and probably elsewhere - sexual bias was systemic. My senior school, for example, had fully equipped engineering and woodworking workshops, each of which could have succeeded as a mini-company. These were reserved solely for boys. The girls had cookery and needlework! For sure, women worked in factories - textiles and electronic manufacture in my area. But the work tended to be menial, by all accounts, with little or no opportunity for managerial advancement. Tradeswork was exclusively male. As HR manager of a manufacturing company that had been around for over 100 years I was the first - the first - to recruit female craft and technician apprentices! And a job I had of it!!
 
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As I said, the Church has many saints who were queens, such as St. Hedwig, St. Helena, St. Margaret of Scotland, St. Matilda of Ringelheim, St. Olga of Kiev.
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When you say St Hedwig, is that the same person I know as St Jadwiga (the Polish spelling)? Jadwiga was unusual, as she was actually the king of Poland. (As an aside, our own queen continues to use some masculine titles, such as Duke of Lancaster, Duke of Normandy, and Lord of Mann.)

I wonder whether the OP is from a Calvinist background. John Knox was famously opposed to female monarchs.

Among Elizabeth II’s predecessors, Mary I is a good example of a Catholic female monarch.
 
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The Bible also has women like Judith and Deborah and Esther and Bathsheba who were in positions of authority.
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Apart from Deborah I wouldn’t say they had authority in their own right. Esther and Bathsheba influenced those who had authority and Judith took initiative to help her people.
 
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