Gender Equity Resources

The Salvation Army believes unequivocally in women's right and responsibility to participate as full and equal partners in all areas of church, community and relationship.

The Salvation Army New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa Territory's mission statement on Gender Equity is 'Together we will work towards eliminating any barriers of sexism and gender bias across The Salvation Army so all are included, valued and equipped to reach their full potential - as God intended.'

Check out The Salvation Army New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa Territory's Gender Equity Committee website here.

In our Gender Equity Resources, we've provided a list of over 300+ resources to arm you in this fight for justice. We want all areas of The Salvation Army to develop safe and holy environments for women and girls to thrive in. Our Gender Equity Resources are a living list to provide another tool in your kete (basket), to help free the captives and proclaim the Good News to all members of our community in Jesus' name! We will be updating and editing this list as time goes on, and would love your input and feedback.

Do you have any resources you believe should be included in our Gender Equity Resources or feedback on the list?

• Contact GenderEquityCommittee@salvationarmy.org.nz
• Send us a PM at Salvation Army Women's Ministries' Facebook Page!
• Check out The Salvation Army International Social Justice Commission's resources here.

Abuse (See also 'Sexual Abuse')

• Wheel of Power and Control (post)
• Five Ways Pastors Unconsciously Reinforce Abuse, and How to Do Better

• In the Midst of the Mess: Hagar and the God Who Sees

• A Gentlemen’s Guide To Rape Culture

• Christian Evangelicals who Vilify Women and Children (video)

• If I Were an Abuser, What Church Would I Want to Attend?

• 3 Ways Egalitarian Theology Opposes Abuse

• We know abuse when we see it, unless it’s women who are being hurt

Activism

• Collective Shout Facebook | Collective Shout website

• The Salvation Army International Social Justice Commission

• Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women

• Period poverty: Salvation Army project to help women living in the Pacific Islands

• Aussie birthing-kit assembly parties help give the gift of life to at-risk mothers around the globe

• Fair's fair: Missy gets real about fair trade

• ‘Anger is the language of justice’ says author of new book on women’s rage

• Nobel Peace Prize for anti-rape activists Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege

Children

• Beauty, marriage, motherhood and ministry
• Kids Meet A Gynecologist (video)
• Dear daughter: Be loud, take up space—your voice matters

• ‘Colours Are For Everyone’ + 38 More Phrases For Feminist Parenting

• How Puberty Kills Girls’ Confidence

• Hard Days With Little Kids: 11 Things I’m Trying To Remember

• 6 Things I Pray for My Granddaughters

• Comic Shows Why Boys Develop Sexism From Early Age By Interactions With Adults (comic)

• Three Phrases To Help Girls Make Their Voices Heard (post)

• Raising children without gender stereotypes

• How I Am Teaching My Small Daughters To Play Patriarchy Chicken

• Is motherhood the highest calling for women?

• The Invisible Infertility: Situational Infertility

• My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery?

• Not Called To Be A Mother

Disability/Special Needs

• Disability Etiquette
• Gender stereotypes have made us horrible at recognizing autism in women and girls
• How to pray with the long term sick

• 'And I am with you now': Salvationist and Deaf advocate Celia King revisits Nepal's women of influence

• Special Needs Parents and Caretakers: It’s Okay to Say No

• Words Can Cut. Just Ask the Parents of a Special Needs Kid

Education

• What reading 3.5 million books tells us about gender stereotypes

• Bridging the gender gap in STEM is vital for a better future

• From period poverty to harassment, young women and girls suffer in lockdown

• Nearly half of men say they do most of the home-schooling. 3% of women agree

Encouragement

• Two Lessons on Blame from Brené Brown

• For Weary Women in a World of Opportunity

• Small, but Mighty Acts of Resistance

• The Sanctuary Prayer Space

• Emotional Agility

• Brené Brown on Empathy (The RSA)

• Assume others are doing the best they can

• I Looked for Joy in the Wrong Place

• Making Room for Glory

Equality in the Bible
(These are some of the best online resources for theological exploration of scriptures that concern 'women's roles'. Search these websites for keywords ie 'submit', 'silent', 'obey'. For book recommendations and lists, please contact Booth College of Mission on 04-528 8628 or bcm@salvationarmy.org.nz)

• Junia Project works
• Christians for Biblical Equality works
• Margaret Mowczkos' works 
• Priscilla Papers works
• Denise T. Plichta's works
• Project Tru 3:16's works
• Woman's right to preach the gospel: Catherine Booth (1859)

• Male-Female Pairs And Parallelism In Luke’s Gospel

Equality in church 

• ISJC Gender Equity Policy
• Extended arguments for women's equality
• Culture is not an excuse for oppressing women

• God Cares About Women (and Christians Should Too)

• Stronger Together: A call to gender equity in The Salvation Army

• The Equality Workbook: Freedom in Christ from the Oppression of Patriarchy (free workbook series)

• 3 Practical Changes Churches Can Make To Empower Women

• Gender Division Divides the Church

• Championing Gender Equality in the Church | Karen Sethurama (video)

• The Bible Teaches the Equal Standing of Man and Woman

• Biola University: Theology of Gender [Sex] (video)

• 10 Ways Male Privilege Shows Up in the Church

• Unpicking the mess: Asking about women's experience in church

• They Gave me a Box (poem)

• Gender Roles Not An Essential of the Christian Faith 

• From there to here

• What do women want? Full inclusion the church (poem)

Equality in homes

• My husband and I split the housework. Here’s how we found a balance.

• You should’ve asked: The wars of household chores (comic)

• A woman's greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself

• Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden

• Get rid of the Umbrella Picture of 'God, Jesus, Husband, Wife, Children' (picture)

Equality in the workplace

• UN chief: Growing inequality for women should shame world

• How blind auditions help orchestras to eliminate gender bias

• How scientists are fighting against gender bias in conference speaker lineups

• Edinburgh seven doctors to graduate after 150 years

• Salvationist, Suffragist, Soldier: The Salvation Army and the fight for women's right to vote

• Women are given a tougher time in interviews than men, scientists find

• Unconscious Bias Study Reveals Disparities in Conference Introductions

• Ambition is not the problem: Women want the top jobs—they just don’t get them

• The Gender Factor in Conference Presentations

• 18 women in the workplace statistics you need to know (in 2021)

Equality-focused Christian Facebook Groups

(Use the search bar in these Facebook Groups for files and articles on the topic you're after)

• Biblical Christian Egalitarians

• Christians for Biblical Equality

• Feminist Studies in Religion

• Fixing Her Eyes

• International Social Justice Commission

• Junia Project

• Marg Mowczko

• MissioAlliance

• Salvation Army Women's Ministries

Feminine imagery of God

• Is it heresy to describe God as a mother?

• Dr Wil Gafney Biblical Language for a God Who Transcends Gender (video)

• Imitating the God Who Carries Us

• Advent: Hearing God In A Female Voice

• 3 Ways That Calling God 'Mother' Transforms Us

Gender Equity research

• Implicit Bias Test (quiz)
• Salvos Australia Gender Equity resources

• No, feminism is not about choice

• Nothing says misogyny like defining feminism as equality for all

• Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

• I Don’t Have Time to Talk About “Women’s Issues”

• The little-known experiment that shows quotas can change more than politics

• UN Women Inequality for Women Infographics (gallery)

• The Commission On The Status Of Women

• Give Kate A Voice (video)

• Army appoints Major Faragher as gender equity researcher

Gender-inclusive language

• 7 Places Where Gender-Inclusive Bible Translation Really Matters: Part 1

• A brand-new vocabulary to describe life in a male-dominated world

• A Cultural History of Feminine Nouns Turned Into Insults

• The Stereotype of the Nagging, Contentious Wife: Understanding Proverbs in its Original Setting

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Bible translations that are gender-accurate, and those that are not.

Health

• Newton writers reflect on 50 years of ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’
• The shocking ways modern medicine lets women down

• Hosting for the Anxious Introvert

• Does Purity Culture Cause Body Hatred and Eating Disorders?

• Perimenopause Triggered My Anxiety And Depression

• 'We've got a real problem with sexual violence' - Sexual health results concerning says Jan Logie

• Breaking The Silence Around Menopause And The Need For A Discourse Around It

• 17 'Small,' But Significant, Lifestyle Changes That Help People With Anxiety

• 1737 - Mental Health: Need to Talk? (phone line)

• Sisters In Mental Illness: Ministry of Weakness

• Ingenious Poster Uses Lemons to Help You Identify Different Signs of Breast Cancer

• Yale study shows that adults take girls’ pain less seriously than boys’

• Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community

International Women's Day

• International Women's Day (image)
• Comrades. It’s that day again. IWD2020. The below may come in handy (post)

Male-headship theology

• 4 Facts that Show That Show 'Head' Does Not Mean Leader in 1 Corinthians 11:3

• Authentein (in 1 Timothy 2:12), in a nutshell

• In Search of Male Leadership: The Logical Inconsistency of Defining a Man’s Initiative in One Way and a Woman’s in Another

• Adam and Eve Didn’t Reverse Roles

• A Critique Of The Esv Study Bible Notes On 1 Timothy 2:12

Male violence against women

• 15 Books on Domestic Violence for Pastors, Believers, and Survivors (book list)

• Male violence against women kills more than COVID-19

• When Will We Care About Domestic Violence?

• Coronavirus crisis will see 7 million unplanned pregnancies and 31 million gender-based violence cases, the UN says

• Provocative domestic violence art exhibition opens on Auckland’s North Shore (video)

• The courage to be seen and heal: JD Douglas on #SheIsNotYourRehab

• New Zealand: The world's most secretly violent nation

• Restored Project (resources)

• Director of film about domestic violence faces criticism from men's rights activists for focusing on women

• Breaking the Silence (e-magazine)

• White Ribbon

• Another Day in NZ – Another Dead Woman

• Can You Cure a Domestic Abuser?

• Domestic violence and a simple tool called the 'No Test' could identify an abusive partner

Marriage

• A more beautiful picture than male headship and female submission

• Breaking the Marriage Idol (book review)

• Equality in Marriage

• The Ins and Outs of Marriage: A Review of “Mutual by Design”

• Q&A: Are Husbands to Lead Their Wives?

• Love and Respect: A better way

• An Equal and Adequate Partner

#MeToo

• What so many men are missing about #MeToo

• #WeToo movement and book
• The Female Martyrs’ #MeToo Message
• #SheToo podcast series (podcast)

• Where #MeToo Came From, and Where It’s Going

• Deadly silence: what happens when we don't believe women

• We Broke the Silence on #ChurchToo. Now It's Time for #MissionsToo

Pornography

• The Truth About Porn’s Role in Sex Trafficking

• Men, Pornography, and Radical Feminism: the Struggle for Intimacy in Patriarchy

• It’s time for a public health campaign about harmful online porn

• A Church in Crisis: Pornography and Patriarchy

• Exposing youth to porn is dangerous, but the harms of pornography don’t end there

Racism

• What’s My Complicity? Talking White Fragility With Robin DiAngelo

• The Imperfect, Unfinished Work of Women’s Suffrage

• Ten myths white people believe about racism

• Four Things I Need to Hear From My Sisters in Christ

• The White Church Has Been A Steady Oppressor

• What Does the Word “Racism” Trigger in You?

• The woman who fought to say 'kia ora' (video)

• Reaching Women From Cultures Different than My Own

Relationships

• What an Old Testament Matchmaker Has to Say About Egalitarian Dating

• Egalitarian from the Start: Practical Tips for Engagements and Weddings

• Single. Dating. Female. Pastor: 5 Things I Want the Church to Know

• Welcome to the Jungle: The Dating Adventures of a Fifty-Something Egalitarian

• So You’re Interested In Her, But Don’t Want to Come off as a Creep

• Celebrating Mother’s Day as a Non-Mom

• Mary for Teen Moms: Chosen by God

• Lady In Waiting? Excerpts From “The Misinterpreted Gospel Of Singleness.”

• Friendship and the Power of Holiness

• Five myths singles are told too often

• God, sexuality and self

• Why Are So Many Single Women Leaving the Church?

Representation

• Visualizing the data: Women’s representation in society

• Reading Spiritual Books by Women is About Embracing the Full Image of God

• The Highwomen Reimagine 'Highwaymen' (song)

• Did the Vatican Hide Art That Depicted Female Priests? (gallery)

• Just 24% of news sources are women. Here’s why that's a problem

• ‘Brilliant exposé’ of gender data gap wins Royal Society science book prize

• Free Posters Celebrating Mighty Women Role Models (pdfs)

• Designer Creates Guessing Game About Incredible Women Who Have Changed the World

• Suffragetto - Suffragette Board Game (game and printable)

• Challenging Hidden Gender Messages: From Sensory Videos To Silent Sermonizing

• 15 Books from 2018 that Will Get You to #ReadWomen

• The Importance Of Using Feminine Words And Images

Sexism

• Pastors, Please Stop Preaching A Narrow "Biblical Womanhood"

• When women don't speak

• In The Image Of God: Sex, Power, And ‘Masculine Christianity’

• The Salvation Army International Statement Against Sexism

• Let’s Stop Talking about Masculinity and Start Talking about Discipleship

• New domestic violence campaign to focus on 'boys being boys' attitude in society (video)

• Women Clergy Subjected to Sexist Remarks, Actions

• Why Christ wouldn't aspire to ‘Christic Manhood’

• The Patriarchal Pandemic

Sexual abuse

• We Can't Ignore Rape in the Bible, Not If We Want to End Sexual Violence

• Sexual Misconduct at Willow Creek: Why We Must Bid the Business Model of Church Goodbye

• Photography exhibit asks people to challenge victim-blaming (video)

• Five things I’d explain to a teenage girl if she asked about Deuteronomy 22:13-21 (assuming she has the courage to)

• I was so concerned about porn-themed portrayals of young girls on Instagram I reported to police

• Open Letter to the Church on Sexual Abuse (video)

• Before the Bus, Rosa Parks Was a Sexual Assault Investigator

• Kobe Bryant and Complicated Legacies

• Geographical Clusters of Rape in the United States Study

Submission and silence

• She is equally called, equally appointed and equally serving: Catherine Booth's charge to women
• The shame of a woman speaking (video)
• Submission in Context: Christ and the Greco-Roman Household Codes

• Submission And Respect From Wives In 1 Peter 3:1-6

• The Household Codes Are About Power, Not Gender

• Who Silenced Women?

• Silencing Women – the guaranteed way for men to stay in control

• Singing and silencing

Suffering

• Simcha Fisher: Do women need ascesis?

• Disappointment in Ministry by Pam Durso

• How to Survive This Virus
  Chapter 2: Losses Come in Waves: How to Find The Way Through & The Complete Passage Deal

• On Spiritual Grief and the Body of Christ

• Faithfulness or fruitfulness: when your ministry isn’t a success

Sustainability

• And God said '[Beeswax wraps are] very good'.
• Ideas for children's parties
• An idea for a sustainable Lent

• Untangling My Twisted Theology of Creation

• Climate change has created a new generation of sex-trafficking victims

• ‘Tis Better to Donate Than Accumulate

Terror Texts [Professor Phyllis Trible's exegesis of the 'terrible scriptures' of Hagar, Tamar, an unnamed concubine, and the daughter of Jephthah]

• Read an excerpt of Prof. Phyllis Trible's Text of Terror

• Texts of Terror: Why oh Why?

• A Biblical Text of Terror: Dinah

• How to read Texts of Terror: A third way

• Deuteronomy 22:28-29 and marrying your rapist

• Can we preach on the ‘texts of terror’?

Trafficking

• Trafficked vs. not trafficked: It’s a distinction without a difference, says survivor of prostitution

• Anti-trafficking and modern slavery

• 8 Ways to Stop Human Trafficking in Our Own Backyard

• Nefarious: Merchant of Souls | Human Trafficking Documentary (video)

• God of the trafficked: Kaitlyn heads to Cambodia with Hagar International

• What is a Child's Life Worth? (infograph)

• Prostitution is not work: The crib sheet

• What’s Wrong with Prostitution?

• Who says decriminalised red-light districts are safer for women?

• Alice Glass challenges three common myths in the prostitution debate

• Buying sex makes men more prone to violence against women

• What is the Nordic Model?

• Beauty for Ashes: Finding purpose in the midst of prostitution and addiction

• Wahine Toa Rising letter to New Zealand ministers

Unequal power dynamics

• The midwives vs. Pharaoh in Exodus: A question of power

• Frozen 2 and What Went Wrong Between Women And Men

• David and Bathsheba Keynote - Sara Barton (video)

• Can We Finally Break the Silence Around Tamar?

• It is Not an Affair: It is Clergy Abuse

Women in the Bible

• Kenneth Bailey on Women in the New Testament (video)

• The Roman Woman who Instructed Her Husband in the Faith

• A Deeper Look at Women of the Bible – A Reading Guide

• The Unnamed Heroes of the Faith

• Partnering Together: Paul’s Female Coworkers

• The Women of Advent

• 3 Things You Might Not Know About Proverbs 31

• Stories of strong women in the Bible told from a different angle

Women in leadership

• We Were Not Made to Be Nice

• Impostor's Syndrome and Mother Theresa

• Want Some Leadership Advice? Lead Like a Woman

• Obstacles and Opportunities for Women Planting Churches

• Evangelical gatekeepers and conservative holiness

• The creation of patriarchy: How did it happen?

• Is Complementarianism Merely Personal Conviction?

• A 10 Fold Challenge to Prove Female Subordination

• Split frame of reference (podcast)

Women in ministry

• 12 Ways To Advocate For Women In Ministry
• Women in ministry recommended book list

• What I Learned From MLK About Church Leadership and Women in Ministry

• Resources to aid women in ministry

• 160+ Australian And New Zealander Women In Theology You Should Know About

• Fearless Salvation Army Women of Faith

• Woman: Her Place and Power (War Cry 1918)

• Women in Ministry (video)

• Why Arguments Against Women in Ministry Aren’t Biblical

• Why Ordain Women? (video)

• Why I Believe in Women in Ministry

• The Church, The Truth, & Women in Ministry - Dr. Dave Ward

• Researcher: Artifacts show that early church women served as clergy

• Prominent Biblical Scholars On Women In Ministry

• But the Preacher Is a Lady