Why should women study Catholic social teaching? It is perhaps too obvious to note, but the fact remains that without the creation of Eve, or ‘woman,’ humanity would lack a social life entirely! Until Adam “met his match” (Gen.2:23), there was no one to be within an equal relationship. And the created order would certainly lack the three necessary societies: the family, civil society, and the Church. The Church considers them “necessary” for human happiness and flourishing. W