Is God Good For Women?

Does God have a down on women? Anyone who judges his personal preferences by the history of religion could be forgiven for thinking that he does.

Traditionally religious institutions do not seem to be good for women. They have tended to side with a status quo which keeps women in their place, dutiful, domestic and dependent; yet many of the pioneers who have risen to the challenge, who have dared to excel in a male world, have done so because of, not in spite of, their faith.

There have always been women who have been broken through the system and forced change. This book is about some of those women who have challenged the norm in a determined, passionate and wilful manner which became a personal pilgrimage, has talked to a number of women who have broken new ground in very different ways and this is a fascinating and inspiring collection.

We meet, for example, a rabbi, a police superintendent, an army lieutenant colonel, a chief executive and a gynaecologist. They struggle with the establishment but are called to create new horizons. They reflect on similar issues: career and teamwork, marriage and motherhood, ambition and power, loneliness and teamwork, youth and age, yet their stories are very different. Some are well known, others are not. But extraordinary insights about what it is to be a woman in a relationship with God who transcends institutions and empowers women to do the same.