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Topic about women is never-ending, and always evolving. Before the 20th century, women werealways portrayed in literature as imperfect beings. This depiction ultimately placed women lowerthan men in all aspects of social, cultural and economic life. In the 20th century, feminismemerged, an ideology that fights for equal rights and obligations between men and women. One ofthe most popular feminist figures is Simone de Beauvoir. She stated that women must transcendthemselves to show their existence. By showing their existence, women can demand rights that arenot recognized. The feminist movement became more widespread and developed until it eventuallygave birth to new schools of feminism. These new schools of feminism often bring impacts that goagainst nature, such as schools that advocate rejecting the existence of men and even refusing togive birth. Indirectly, these schools of feminism contradict the magisterium of the Church.
Feminism ultimately raises new problems. The problem that will be raised from this research ishow the Church responds to the feminism movements that are echoing in today's society. Thepurpose of this study is to provide insight to the public regarding the Church's state towards thefeminism movement. This research uses the literature review method, which is a series of researchactivities consisting of collecting data that is only limited to library sources, reading, andprocessing the data. This method has primary sources that are the object of research and secondarysources that support the study in the research. The researcher hopes that this research will
86 | Procceding The Theology International Conference 2023 – Universitas Sanata Dharmacontribute to the wider community for women to dare to act to break the stigmas that have beenentrenched in the wider community.

transcendent of women, gender justice, mulieris dignitatem