As long as women are prevented from attaining their highest possibility, so long will men be unable to achieve the greatness which might be theirs. --'Abdu'l-Bahá

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Religion as an Agent for Promoting the Advancement of Women at all Levels
  
  
• Education: Educating Girls: An Investment in the Future
  
  
• Health: Primary Health Care and the Empowerment of Women
  
  
• Violence: Ending Violence Against Women
  
  
• Economic Structures: Women in the Informal Sector in Malaysia
  
  
• Power Sharing: Bahá'í Law and Principle: Creating Legal and Institutional Structures for Gender Equality
  
  
• Mechanisms for Advancement: UNIFEM/Bahá'í Project Raises Community Awareness
  
  
• Human Rights: Protection of Women's Rights
  
  
• Girl Child: The Girl Child: A Critical Concern
  
  
• Appendix: The Status of Women in the Bahá'í Community
  
  

This essay was published in The Greatness Which Might Be Theirs, a compilation of reflections on the Agenda and Platform for Action for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women: Equality, Development and Peace, published for distribution at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and the parallel NGO Forum in Huairou, China, August/September 1995.

BIC Document #95-0826