Gender Equality:

• However, there are also religious and philosophical perspectives that advocate for gender equality and challenge traditional gender roles and norms.
• Many religious traditions have historically been patriarchal, with men holding positions of power and authority, while women have been marginalized and excluded from leadership roles.
• • Gender equality means that men and women should be equal and given the same rights and opportunities as each other.
• In the UK women can face gender prejudice and discrimination where they are not treated with equality.
• Against: The Catholic Church argues that women have a special role as mothers and they do not allow women to be priests. ‘So God created mankind in His own image; in the image of God. He created them; male and female he created them.’
• For: The Church of England have allowed women priests since 1994. ‘There is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.'
• Against gender equality:

  "he will rule over you" - Bible

  "The women should be kept silent in the churches" - Bible

  "For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church" - Bible

  "Women should submit to their husbands in everything" - Bible
• For gender equality:

  "Nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" - Bible

  "People, we created you all from a single man and a single women, and make you in races and tribes so that you should recognize one another" - Quran