Women, Role of - Measurement Concept

Measures the extent to which women are allowed to fill various organizational roles within a religious group
17 Questions match selected parameters.

Survey Questions

WMNBRD06 from National Congregations Study, Panel Dataset (1998 and 2006-2007)
(wmnbrd_06) If they are otherwise qualified, are women in your congregation permitted to: Serve as full-fledged members of your congregation's main governing body or coordinating committee? WMNLD06 from National Congregations Study, Panel Dataset (1998 and 2006-2007)
(wmnlead_06) If they are otherwise qualified, are women in your congregation permitted to: Be the head clergyperson or primary religious leader of your congregation? WMNPRC06 from National Congregations Study, Panel Dataset (1998 and 2006-2007)
(wmnprch_06) If they are otherwise qualified, are women in your congregation permitted to: Preach at a main worship service? WMNTCH06 from National Congregations Study, Panel Dataset (1998 and 2006-2007)
(wmntch_06) If they are otherwise qualified, are women in your congregation permitted to: Teach by themselves a class with adult men in it? WMNVLT06 from National Congregations Study, Panel Dataset (1998 and 2006-2007)
(wmnvltr_06) If they are otherwise qualified, are women in your congregation permitted to: Hold all of the volunteer leadership positions that men can hold? FERESPCT from General Social Survey, 2000
How do you rate how your local church does each of the following? Would you say your local church does an excellent, very good, fair, or poor job of: -- Respecting the rights of women ORDAINMN from American Catholic Laity Poll, 1987
I will read eight items and after each, please tell me if it has strengthened your commitment to the Catholic Church, weakened it, or had no effect one way or the other. -- The policy of ordaining men, but not women, to the priesthood. WMNORDAN from American Catholic Laity Poll, 1987
For each of the following areas of church life, please tell me if you think the Catholic laity should have the right to participate, or should not have the right to participate. -- Deciding whether women should be ordained to the priesthood. QN35_B from Changing Faiths, Latinos and the Transformation of American Religion
O you agree or disagree that the Catholic Church should allow women to become priests? FEMPR from ABC News the Pope and the Church, 2003
(ASKED ONLY OF THOSE WHO IDENTIFED THEIR RELIGION AS CATHOLIC) Currently, women cannot become priests in the Roman Catholic Church. Do you favor or oppose that policy? INFWOMN2 from Survey of Chicago Catholics, 2007
How much influence over decisions to leave the church does . . . have? Role of women in the Church PRWOMEN from ABC News Church in Crisis Poll, 2002
Currently, women cannot become priests in the Roman Catholic Church. Do you favor or oppose that policy? WOMENORD from Four-State Church Involvement Study, 1988
Please tell me if you agree or disagree with each of these statements: If unsure, all things considered, do you tend to agree or disagree? -- I support the ordination of women; that is, I think women should be allowed to be ministers. AGRWMSIL from Dimensions of Religious Commitment, 1988
Please read each of the following statements and do TWO things: FIRST, decide whether the statement is from the Bible or not; and SECOND, indicate whether or not you agree with the statement. (Please do this even if you think the statement is not from the Bible.) 'Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak.' Do you agree? WOLEAD from Middletown Area Study, 1998
ASKED ONLY OF THOSE RESPONDENTS WHO ATTEND CHURCH: My congregation would allow women to be religious leaders, such as by letting them preach? RELGC22A from Dimensions of Religious Commitment, 1986
Please read each of the following statements and do TWO things: FIRST, decide whether the statement is from the Bible or not; and SECOND, indicate whether or not you agree with the statement. (Please do this even if you think the statement is not from the Bible.) - "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak." Do you agree? RELGC22A from Dimensions of Religious Commitment, 1987
Please read each of the following statements and do TWO things: FIRST, decide whether the statement is from the Bible or not; and SECOND, indicate whether or not you agree with the statement. (Please do this even if you think the statement is not from the Bible.) - "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak." Do you agree?