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Angelica Kauffmann, Self Portrait, 1780 - 1785.



Women in history


Eleanor Roosevelt
Sarah Palin

Such examples include

Christianity and women's rights

See also: Christianity and women's rights and Atheism and women's rights

Georges de La Tour, Mary Magdalene.

Mary Magdalene and other women were the first individuals to Jesus Christ after his resurrection.[2]

Dr. Jeff Myers in his book Understanding the Culture: A Survey of Social Engagement wrote about Christianity and women's rights:

Christianity has done more for women’s rights than any other movement in history. Christianity sprouted in the seedbed of the Roman Empire, whose soil was nourished with the blood of the innocent. To say that Rome was distinctly anti-woman is an understatement. Families typically kept all their healthy boys and their oldest healthy girl. Other daughters were left to die as infants. Surgical abortion was available, and women often died from it or were left maimed. Surviving girls were typically married off at age twelve and were pressured into remarriage when widowed.

Christians opposed these practices. They took in abandoned infants, condemned surgical abortion, allowed girls to remain unmarried until they were ready, and provided support for widows. Welcomed by the church rather than shunned, women converted to Christianity at a far higher rate than men and rose to positions of leadership.Unsurprisingly, this led to a surplus of Christian women who, in marrying pagan men, provided the early church “with a steady flow of secondary converts,” as Rodney Stark drily phrased it. Also, because they accepted rather than rejected all children, Christians gained a distinct population advantage in producing the next generation.

Furthermore, Christianity’s acceptance of women’s dignity led to cultural innovations all over the world. In India, for example, it was only when Parliament forced the British East India Company to allow Christian missionaries into India that the practice of suttee was questioned. It took decades, but these missionaries, together with indigenous Christians like Krishna Mohan Bannerjee, eventually succeeded in having this gruesome practice banned.

In China, traditional culture held that tiny feet were a mark of status and beauty for women. In many parts of China, the feet of little girls were bound tightly to prevent them from growing. This broke the toes and bones in the arches of their feet, leaving many girls nearly crippled. In the 1600s, the Manchu emperors (who were not ethnically Chinese) tried and failed to stop the practice. In the late 1800s, however, Chinese Christian women, such as medical doctor Shi Meiyu, began agitating against this abuse of young girls and women and were eventually successful in making the practice illegal. Meiyu also exerted a transformational influence on China through her work in medicine and public health and the help she provided to opium addicts.

Historically in most cultures, women were often denied educational opportunities. Christian missionaries and indigenous Christian leaders changed that in country after country. In Japan, Nitobe Inazō, a scholar with five doctoral degrees and an innovator in Japan’s agricultural advancement, founded Tokyo Christian Women’s University and became its first president. Tsuda Umeko, a Japanese woman educated in the United States, became the private tutor of prime minister Ito Hirobumi’s children. She had such an influence on securing the right of women to education that Tsuda College, the most prestigious private women’s college in Japan, is named in her honor.[3]

Women in the Bible









New Testament statements on the role of women

Jan Vermeer, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary.

Saint Paul also has much to say on the status of women in society, most memorably that women should submit to their husbands just as the church submits to Christ. [5] [6] [7] [8] Most of these things are not believed by even the strictest Christians, and such views are considered extreme by even the most conservative Christians.

The New Testament contains several instructions regarding the role of women:

  1. Women are to dress modestly and not wear "broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array."[9][10]
  2. Women may learn in silence, but may not be permitted to teach men.[11] Some interpretations limit this rule to the teaching of doctrine.
  3. Women are not permitted to speak in church.[12]
  4. Women are to be subservient to and follow the instructions of their husbands.[13][14][15][16]






Strong and important women in the Bible


Old Testament statements on women


Atheism and women

Studies indicate that women in the Western World tend to be more religious than men.[20]

See also: Atheism and women and Atheism and women's rights

Surveys throughout the world and other data indicate that women are less inclined to be atheists.[21] [22]

In 2016, Atheist Alliance International (AAI) conducted an annually reoccurring atheist census project and found:

At the time of writing, the Atheist Census Project recorded that on average worldwide 73.2% of respondents were male. The result is consistent with other research... As such, the focus of many scholarly papers has been on seeking to explain this persistent observation."[23]

In November 2010, Discover Magazine published survey results published by the World Values Survey which showed significant differences between the percentage of men and women who are atheists for various countries with men outnumbering women in terms of adopting an atheist worldview.[24]


  2. Women's rights, Everystudent.com
  3. Women’s Rights: Advanced by a Christian Worldview for 2,000 Years
  4. Genesis 3:16
  5. Ephesians 5:22-24
  6. I Corinthians 11:8-9
  7. I Corinthians 11:4-7
  8. I Corinthians 14:34-35
  9. 1 Timothy 2:9
  10. Peter 3:2-6
  11. 1 Timothy 2:11-12
  12. 1 Corinthians 14:34-37
  13. Ephesians 5:22-24
  14. Colossians 3:18
  15. Titus 2:4-5
  16. 1 Peter 3:1-7
  17. I Timothy 2:15
  18. 1 Corinthians 11:5
  19. Exodus 21:7-11
  20. Multiple references:
  23. AAI Position Statement - Gender Balance

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