Leading women : how church women can avoid leadership traps and negotiate the gender maze
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- Author
- Becker, Carol E.
- Publication Date
- c1996
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BV 676 B43 1996
- Author
- Becker, Carol E.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto ON
- Publisher
- United Church Publishing House
- Publication Date
- c1996
- Physical Description
- 206 p. ; 22.8 x 15 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "[By] Carol E. Becker".
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "This book is about women and men working together in the church. The emphasis is on women and what happens to them in the church. To a lesser extent, it is also about what happens to men when they try to work with women. This book is not an attempt to inflate the feminine or trash the masculine. It says, above all, that we women want a two-way street, In whatever ways we discover to lead the church together, women want one set of rules for both women and men in leadership. .... In all I interviewed thirty-five women and eight men in thirteen different Protestant denominations. I included in my interviews clergy, lay professionals, and women who work as volunteers in denominations that restrict women to that role. .... Fourteen themes emerged. They are wide-ranging and sometimes unexpected. All of them are thought-provoking and some are difficult to hear, particularly for men. These fourteen themes are amplified throughout the book with forays into parallel evidence from the current literature on leadership. Part 1 is about the church as a workplace for women. Part 2 describes what happens to women who work for the church, and what happens to men when they work with women. Part 3 is about change. .... Over one hundred church leaders participated in the focus groups, and as a result of their conversations with one another, I can suggest ten change factors". -- Intro.
- Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Leadership, Women, and the Church -- Introduction: Leadership Embodied -- What Church Women and Men Say About Leadership -- Women Leading in the Church -- Leadership Paradigms and Women as Leaders -- The Church as an Environment for Women -- The Sexuality of Denominations -- Part Two: Leadership Traps -- Introduction: Organizational Wives or New Paradigm, Leaders ? -- The Incredible, Invisible Woman -- The Cinderella Syndrome -- Harassment and Other Hazards -- Traps for Men -- Part Three: Leading Together in the Church -- Introduction: Changing and Growing Together -- What Men Must Do -- Ten Mathematics of Power (and Other Equations for Women) -- Our Own Wisdom -- Epilogue -- Notes.
- Author is a lay woman and member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
- Subjects
- Women clergy
- Women in church work - Protestant churches
- Leadership - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Sexual harassment - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Man-woman relationships - Religious aspects - Christianity
- ISBN
- 1-55134-049-6
- Call Number
- BV 676 B43 1996
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)