Women in Leadership

[Gregory Matthews]

The following article reflects the doctoral work of a student who chose to take a look at that attitudes of people toward women in leadership positons and how those  people related to questions as to the ordination of women.

As a critique of the study, it should be clear to anyone who has done graduate work that the study was foundationally flawed, and therefore it should not be used to support any generalized conclusions.

However, on the positive side, the author of the study supports that view and considers her work to only be that of a pilot study that should lead to future more comprehensive work.  So, the author is making very limited claims related to the study.

To me, the value of this work lies in the fact that it suggests that more work needs to be done.

See:

https://spectrummagazine.org/article/2018/04/21/study-compares-attitudes-toward-womens-ordination-and-women-leadership

 

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

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survey sample was quite small ... just one church congregation in southern California

statistically, one cannot generalize *anything* from her sample....  what a colossal waste of time, imho

[CoAspen]

I agree with Pam from a research point of view, she has simply obtained a few opinions, but that is good starting point. She should continue to design a real research project, collect the data and then have a report to share. What she has done could not even be called a "plot study" in the formal sense. 

[phkrause]

Excellent article none the less!!

[Gregory Matthews]

As I said, the study was foundationally flawed.