So long as these the two wings of humanity--male and female--are not fully equal in strength, this bird will not fly.
Location
Baha'is of Linn and Benton Counties, Oregon
Corvallis,
OR
Justine Finn—the founder and director of Relation-Shift, which works to address gender and sexual violence against middle- and high-school aged youth—talks about addressing and recognizing destructive gender biases in the real world. Even now, rigid gender roles hold back women—but they also hold back men. So how do we get to gender equality? The Baha’i teachings say that “The world of humanity is possessed of two wings, the male and the female. So long as these two wings are not equivalent in strength, the bird will not fly.” If we celebrate our shared humanity, we can fly. Click here for the full article.