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A woman’s role?
“The discrimination against women on a global basis is very often attributable to the declaration by religious leaders in Christianity, Islam and other religions that women are inferior in the eyes of God,” former President Jimmy Carter said last week. Many traditions teach that while both men and women are equal in value, God has ordained specific roles for men and women. Those distinct duties often keep women out of leadership positions in their religious communities.What is religion’s role in gender discrimination?
Equality does not mean uniformity
Religion stands ready to help advance the equality of women. But that does not mean all roles are the same.
From empowerment to patriarchy
Most Muslims would tell you that one of Islam’s great goals was to elevate women’s status in society and to prevent the oppression of women that was common in seventh century Arabia.
Why is female leadership blocked in the Catholic Church?
After decades of working in the Catholic Church it is clear to me that gender discrimination is fostered both consciously and unconsciously.
Gender roles are not discrimination
In the church, the male assumes a teaching responsibility, but that does not make the woman’s role less significant or less meaningful. It is simply different.
What Mormon equality looks like
Women in the Mormon faith regularly preach from the pulpit to the congregation and lead prayers during Sunday services.
Religion lays foundation for gender discrimination
The absence of a commitment to eliminating gender discrimination is most evident in the denial of opportunities for spiritual or congregational leadership.
Reclaim an egalitarian Islam
Muslim women’s increased participation in Islamic scholarship and leadership is essential if true gender justice is to be achieved in the Middle East and across the world.
Narrow views of God, gender
Would an all-loving creator assign us to separate spheres of usefulness and then add this caveat: those of you in that sphere should stay there?
Gender discrimination a cultural bias, not religious truth
It saddens me to think that in a predominantly Hindu society, where on one hand, women are exalted through the reverence of goddesses, on the other, they are ostracized simply due to their gender.
Culture and biblical literalism play G-d
G-d saw beyond gender.
Religion lies about women
It is time women everywhere woke up to the truth of what religion does to them.
Two cheers for complementarianism
In complementarian traditions there is much to be found that is worthy of respect, even appreciation, rather than prejudice.
Let me check with my wife…
Men and women are biologically different and thus can never be truly the same.
Religion’s outdated notions of gender
Claims that women are “separate but equal” invariably lead more to separation than equality.
On gender, religious people have work to do
Religion has enshrined, as if wished by God, a subordinate position to women, to its shame.
The God women need
If the holiness of women is suppressed, then there is no divinity that reflects the female experience.
Religion responsible for curse of gender discrimination
Some religious teaching specifically relegates women to a lower position in the divine creation.
Turning from patriarchy to full inclusion of women
Surely the day is coming when the majority of the world’s religions will recognize the full humanity of half of God’s creation.
Religion a weapon for the powerful
The declarations by religious leaders in Christianity, Islam and other religions that women are inferior in the eyes of God are responsible for the discrimination of women all over the world.
Women and men are equal, but different
God bless equality under the law and blessed differences!
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