Equality of Women and Men

Equality workshops assist participants to identify and implement effective strategies for promoting equality in our communities and in the world at large. These strategies include exploring the meaning of equality and the necessity for cooperation and mutual support among women and men, fostering equality in marriage and in Bahá’í community life, raising children to live out the principle of equality, and teaching this principle to others.

Through each of the four modules, learners practice active, practical steps to promote gender equality in the home, the Bahá’í community, and in every field of human endeavor.

Course Modules

Module One — Your Role as an Equality Worker

Bahíyyih Khánum, The Greatest Holy Leaf
This Radiant Century
Equality: A Key to Peace
The Talks of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Equality, Complementarity, and Balance
Examining Assumptions
Inherited Assumptions and Investigating Truth
Effective Strategies for Promoting Equality
National Teaching Initiative
The Example of Bahíyyih Khánum
Spiritual Development of the Equality Worker

Module Two — Equality in the World At Large

Example of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Education for Equality
Equality in the World at Large
Equality: A Shared Responsibility
Working Together for Equality
The Bahá’í Community: A Light and Haven for All
The National Spiritual Assembly Promotes Equality
Women in the Administrative Order
Women and the Universal House of Justice
The Power of Encouragement
Child Development Centered Community

Module Three — Equality in the Family

Bahá’u’lláh and the Holy Family
Family Life in an Ever Advancing Civilization
Consultation: The Panacea for Domestic Conflict
Examining Conversation Patterns
Consultation
Marriage: A Fortress for Well-Being and Salvation
Parents and Children
Violence-Free Communities
Equality and Bahá’í Law
Glimpses of the Holy Family
Action Planning and Closing Devotions

Module Four — Teaching Equality “Can Attract Much Notice”

Táhirih, Peerless Woman of the Bábí Dispensation
What a Woman Can Do
The Legacy of Equality
Teaching Equality
Answering Difficult Questions: Research Activity
Two Wings of the Bird: A Statement of the National Spiritual Assembly
The National Spiritual Assembly Promotes Equality, Part Two
Equality: A World-Embracing Vision
The Power of Unified Action
Envisioning Equality
Unified Action for Equality
The Greatest Holy Leaf: Service to the Head of the Faith