Abstract
Reviewing the history of this past year’s celebration of the World Council of Churches' (WCC) Ecumenical Decade in Solidarity with Women is an assertion of where we have been and of where we are presently, at least on some level, regarding issues related to the lives of women. 1998 marks fifty years of WCC attention to women’s concerns, since in 1948 the very first WCC assembly “received a report on ‘The Life and Work of Women in the Church’... .Each succeeding WCC Assembly has made specific reference to women’s participation and called for special focus on [women’s] concerns and struggles in church and society.”