TAGS: Children; Education; Equality; Gender; Mothers; Social change; Women

Abstract:

Explores the status of women in the world, the development of women, the role of education in that development, the Bahá'í concept of gender equality and the application of that principle to family life. Includes bibliography of related Bahá'í literature.

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Women

Bahá'u'lláh
Abdu'l-Bahá
Shoghi Effendi
Universal House of Justice

Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, compiler

published in Compilation of Compilations, Volume 2, pages 355-407

1991

single page

chapter 1

Table of Contents

I.	The Bahá'í concept of equality	1
II.	The role of education in the development of women	11
III.	Application of the principle of equality to family life	15
IV.	Women in the world at large	21
V.	Fostering the development of women	25
VI.	Bibliography	33