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International Women’s Day

Filed under: Gender Equality
Written by: on Saturday, March 8, 2008

In Australia today has been written in my diary as “Gender Awareness Day” but in many other countries it goes by the title above. We have permission to reprint this piece written by Ellen Alexander who serves the Lord in India and has been a speaker for CBE.

It’s not about flowers and chocolates

Women are asking for respect and dignity – not just for a fortunate few,
but ALL women.
For equity and freedom to choose
To be safe in the home and on the streets
For their work and opinions to be valued
For their needs at different stages to be considered

For in their empowerment lies the empowerment of families, society and countries.

We look forwward to a day when we don’t need an International Women’s Day
When men and women will walk side by side, as God intended them to.
Until then we will work toward it and live in hope of a better tomorrow

You can make a difference…

Living in Hope

5 Comments »

Comment by Mindy

March 8, 2008 @ 9:31 pm

Amen!

Comment by Mary Ann

March 16, 2008 @ 1:44 am

Amen to that! Thanks for posting that, Liz.

Yesterday my sister came home in tears because one of her clients made inappropriate overtures to her (“if you want me to be your client, then you will…”). She was rightly ruffled by it. We always hear about it or see it on TV but never think things like that really happen, but it really happened to her, and it makes me so angry. My sister is an engineer, a field that is still predominantly male-dominated. As I talked to her, she shared with me that she faces sexism all the time. Because she is a woman, the men are either overly nice to her or overly mean. Certain of these men especially can’t stand it when they find out that she is finishing her masters and will have a degree higher than theirs — or makes more money, or is smarter and better at being an engineer…

Anyway, I can’t wait til the day when this kind of inequality will be stomped out.

Comment by Tia Lynn

March 16, 2008 @ 8:24 pm

Yes, Yes, Yes!

In the last year, I have become an egalitarian, but I am still attending a moderately complementarian church. For the month of march, I started a series over at my blog on biblical equality. While some rigid complementarians come on to fervently denounce such a notion, there are other complementarians coming on to sincerely learn about egalitarianism, because they have never been presented with their case. So, if any of you would like to migrate over to my blog and help represent the egalitarian worldview, I would greatly appreciate it!

Tia Lynn~

http://www.abandonimage.blogspot.com

Comment by Greg Anderson

March 23, 2008 @ 8:41 am

Mary Ann,

You should read what those same sorts did to Hypatia of Alexandria in the 5th century. Many men feel doubly threatened, especially by brainy women in professions which are traditionally considered to be male dominated.

I have been an egalitarian for some time now, and I applaud those women who are beholden to nobody, to no ideology, and to no Biblical interpretation which says what they can and cannot do with what they’ve been endowed with by their creator.

Comment by Liz

March 31, 2008 @ 8:28 am

Hi Greg. I have only just read your comment and wanted to say thank you for supporting women to be all that God created them to be. May you be blessed and encouraged in your stand for equality

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