. Why are carers who are mainly women paid at such a lowly rate? Is it a caste notion that deprecates caring? Surely we can do better in this regard. Recent events tells us we might be finally approaching a tipping point on gender and the need to address structural change.What class and privilege? I first worked as a lawyer in the late ’70s and I was struck by the caste lines between professionals and administrative staff.
I went to an all-male private school and the expectations for me and my peers were totally different.The great power of caste is how it deals in shame and honour and rewards you or puts you back in your place. Two thousand years ago the question of worth and equality was addressed by St Paul. Despite pride in his own Jewish pedigree he wrote powerfully about universal human dignity … “there is no Jew nor Gentile, slave nor free, male nor female”, he wrote. All equally carry the image of God and all are equally loved and have standing in God’s world. No one is born to a defined category or to be a servant and to meekly accept their place. Here was a first-century demolition job done on caste.
But such revolutionary notions from Jesus and the Apostle Paul were ignored by even the Church and muted by the need to maintain a hierarchy. It produced a blindness even in the most principled and noble like , who wrote that all men are born equal and free, yet even as he penned that Constitutional preamble, he himself owned 600 slaves. Such soaring insight and such impenetrable blindness to caste.Our Morning Edition newsletter is a curated guide to the most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. Sign up to
TimCostello I'm surprised you've printed this story. I mean I'm pleased you've gone there, but your 'journalism' has been so scattershot of late that I don't know what to expect anymore.
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