Gender

Sri Lankan nun sitting in a field of flowers

The Ordination of Nuns in Sri Lanka

In Sri Lanka, a majority Buddhist nation, debates about the ordination of women have intensified.

Small group of smiling hindu women

The Third Gender and Hijras

In Hindu society, people of non-binary gender expression have played important roles for over 2000 years.

 

A group of woemn reading the Torah in front of the Wall

The Women of the Wall

Formed in 1988, WoW has advocated for the right of women to pray in ways forbidden by the administrators of Jerusalem's Western Wall.

 

Rainbow flags around Methodist church

Sexuality and the United Methodists

In recent years, Christian churches have taken strikingly divergent views on sexuality.

 

Members of Sisters in Islam walking down a street

Malaysia's Sisters in Islam (SIS)

In the mid-1980s, women in Kuala Lumpur began holding a Qur’anic study circle. They called themselves Sisters in Islam.