Today, 50 percent of law school graduates and 60 percent of accounting graduates are women. Twenty-five years ago, the glass ceiling was...
In the midst of harsh treatment, the Israelites remained faithful to God’s command to be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1:28). That entailed...
Prevention of harassment means not only creating a safe environment, but a productive one for those at...
The best of the judges is Deborah. The people recognize her wisdom and come to her for counsel and conflict resolution (Judges 4:5). The military hierarchy recognizes her as supreme commander and in...
Throughout the Old Testament, we see God at work through the actions of women.
Ezer in the Bible means helper.
While Genesis 1 and 2 show us how God intended human beings to be, Genesis 3 shows us what the man and woman chose to become. You probably know the story about a...
One consequence of the woman's sin was greater pain in childbirth (Genesis 3:16). Enter midwives. Midwives have been part of human experience...
Sometimes surprising women are called to show up as ezers in unusual situations. Rahab was one of these examples. Here's the back-story...
Sometimes God calls a woman to the highest level of leadership in a crisis moment. As the Israelites settled into the Promised...
Women's work takes many forms. Among the women in the Old Testament, some served as midwives, some as either prostitutes or innkeepers, some as prophets, and one as the leader of the nation...
Refusing to be hampered by patriarchal strictures, Abigail defied gender roles in order to keep a workplace...
One of the most important but sometimes under-valued professions is that of teacher. We may prosper or fail, depending on the quality...
Esther was a woman who thought she had no influence over her husband or over matters of importance. Yet a desperate situation...
We may be familiar with the real women and real situations of the Old Testament. But the Bible also calls us to...
We met Lady Wisdom in the opening chapters of the book of Proverbs. We also find her in the closing verses of...
Explore a history of women working both in the church and in the marketplace for God’s purposes.
When we open the Gospel according to Luke, we immediately meet an elderly woman named Elizabeth, the wife of a Jewish priest...
Jesus, now in his thirties, “filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through...
The four gospel accounts of Jesus’ earthly ministry contain the mention of more women than virtually any other secular writing of that era. In them we hear Jesus praise women for their faith...
