“WOMEN AND MEN ARE EQUAL”
1
Strongly
Agree
2
Slightly
Agree
3
4
5
Neither
Agree or
Disagree
Slightly
Disagree
Strongly
Disagree
GUESS THE BIBLE STORY
1
4
7
10
13
14
9
8
11
2
12
6
5
3
15
Why might we be
looking at this story
in a lesson on gender
inequality?
LO: To explore attitudes towards gender and the role of women in Christianity
CREATION
Who was made first?
What was Eve made out of?
Who broke the rules and how?
How were they punished?
How have women been punished ever since?
Answer in your book: does the story show
men and women as being equal?
 The creation story does / doesn’t show men
and women as equal…
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Not all Christians agree

Identify the date from which women could become
priests in the following churches in the UK:
Baptist Union of Great Britain
Church of England
Methodist Church
Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
Roman Catholic Church
Salvation Army
United Reformed Church
1800, 1865, 1922, 1972, 1974, 1994, NEVER
WOMEN PRIESTS
 Identify the date from which women could become priests in
the following churches in the UK:
Baptist Union of Great Britain
1922
Church of England
1994
Methodist Church
1974
Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
1800
Roman Catholic Church
Never
Salvation Army
1865
United Reformed Church
1972
 You will each have a sheet
with statements on about
Christian beliefs about
equality.
 You will need one highlighter
pen.
 Some of the statements
support equality between
men and women in the
church, and others are
against it
 Highlight the statements
that support equality and
leave the statements about
inequality white.
LO: To explore attitudes towards gender and the role of women in Christianity
How can society help
Men
and women
arefor
to make
life equal
different…How?
men and women?
 E GRADE: Will be able to give
an example of a Bible quote to
support gender equality and
one to oppose it
C GRADE: Will be able to
explain how women are treated
in the dif ferent Churches and
what dif ferent Christian
opinions are about the
treatment of women in the
church
 A GRADE: Will be able to argue
for and against gender equality
in Christianity using Bible
quotes to support their
arguments
LO: To explore attitudes towards gender and the role of women in Christianity
HOW COULD
YOU USE THE
CREATION
STORY TO
SHOW GENDER
INEQUALITY?
DO YOU THINK
WOMEN AND
MEN SHOULD
HAVE
EQUALITY?
GIVE A BIBLE
QUOTE THAT
SUPPORTS
GENDER
EQUALITY
GIVE A BIBLE
QUOTE THAT
SUPPORTS
GENDER
INEQUALITY
WHY DO YOU
THINK THE
ROMAN
CATHOLIC
CHURCH DOESN’T
WANT FEMALE
PRIESTS?
TELL ME TWO
FACTS YOU’VE
LEARNT TODAY
ABOUT GENDER
EQUALITY /
INEQUALITY
WHAT DOES THE
WORD
‘EQUALITY’
MEAN?
THIS SLIDE
DOES NOT WORK
– NO IDEA WHY -
EXPLAIN ONE
DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN CHURCH
OF ENGLAND AND
ROMAN CATHOLICS
VIEWS ABOUT
WOMEN
USING 10
WORDS ONLY –
TELL THE CLASS
SOMETHING
YOU LEARNT
TODAY
 Easier = Write a letter to the Pope explaining your opinions on
whether women should be treated equally by the Church.
 Dear Pope Francis,
 I heard that you recently said that the door was closed for
women to become priests in the Catholic Church. I want to
explain to you what my opinion is. I believe that…
 I think this because…
 Harder = Write a balanced news article on why women should
have equality in the Church but also why they shouldn’t. You
need to make sure you have a balanced range of arguments
so that the reader can judge for themselves and so you are
not seen as bias. You can end by expressing your own opinion.
LO: To explore attitudes towards gender and the role of women in Christianity