BahÃĄâ•Žuâ•ŽllÃĄh and the New Era - Knowledge Rush

Women and the New AgeWhen woman’s point of view receives due consideration andwoman’s will is allowed adequate expression in the arrangementof social affairs, we may expect great advancement in matterswhich have often be grievously neglected under the old regimeof male dominance—such matters as health, temperance, peace,and regard for the value of the individual life. Improvements inthese respects will have very far-reaching and beneficent effects.‘Abdu’l-Bahá says:—The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man hasdominated over woman by reason of his more forceful andaggressive qualities both of body and mind. But the balanceis already shifting; force is losing its dominance, and mentalalertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love andservice, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy.Hence the new age will be an age less masculine and morepermeated with the feminine ideals, or, to speak more exactly,will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elementsof civilization will be more evenly balanced.—Star of theWest, viii, No. 3, p. 4 [from report of remarks made aboardthe S.S. Cedric on arrival in New York].