Are female bosses allowed?

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EmilyAlexandra said:
I wonder whether the OP is from a Calvinist background. John Knox was famously opposed to female monarchs.
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John Knox certainly disagreed with Mary, Queen of Scotland, ruling Scotland. Plus she was also Catholic.

The Christian Reconstructionists are Calvinists by the way.
 
What?

Seriously?

I was talking about the overly sentimental rendition of the wife and mother during the Victorian era which pretty much sentimentalize middle and upper class Victorian women.

I said nothing about wifely submission so why are you flinging Bible verses at me?

My post has nothing to do with wifely submission.
 
It won’t happen. Too many variables prevent it lest of all cross party support and public opinion.
 
My impression is that it’s not uncommon for a Sister to be the head of a Catholic hospital/health system.
 
Sarcelle said:
By the way, there was a female professor of Hebrew at a Southern Baptist University who was fired because the higher ups didn’t like the idea of a woman teaching men. This happened in the early 2000s.
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So how did she get hired in the first place? Obviously she was female when they hired her. (In secular colleges nowadays, that wouldn’t be a foregone conclusion… 🤮)
 
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So how did she get hired in the first place?
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I think it was the case that most Southern Baptists didn’t care too much. They might’ve taught some general notion of ‘biblical manhood and womanhood’, but they didn’t necessarily strictly demarcate the boundaries of men and women could or couldn’t do.

But ‘women’s submission’ started making the rounds around Anglophone evangelical communities from the early 2000s until a few years ago. There was a very strong focus on ensuring that women did not assume any manner of authority over men, no matter how minor. Proponents of women’s submission were even counselling that choir directors should not be women.
 
When she was hired, there was no push back then to keep women in any position of authority or teaching over men.

The push came in the early 2000s after she was hired.

Complementarianism became a thing in the 2000s.

This meant no female teachers in high school or university, no women police officers, no women judges, lawyers, doctors. In fact there is a push to remove the right to vote from women.
 
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I don’t know if they really thought it through.

The Christian Reconstructionists in the US are a small portion of the Fundamentalists but they are very politically active.
 
Yes women can wield authority. My daughter does that in a workshop of 300 mostly men plus several other workshops in Canada and Mexico.
She has to wear a hardhat and steel boots when she walks out on the floor of course, but when she needs to insert that boot into someone’s attitude she does it with complete confidence.

And the interesting thing is they respect her because she does not come off as a nasty person who simply wants to enjoy authority. In addition to enforcing discipline she also learns their names and cares about their lives.
 
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Don’t forget Queen Mary of England, Henry VIII’s daughter, who temporarily returned the Church of England to Rome
 
I don’t think she was ever under serious consideration.

St. Olga of Kiev was no slouch in the mass killings department, but she did all that before she converted to Christianity, so presumably repented before being baptized.
 
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