Buried Talents: Overcoming Gendered Socialization to Answer God's Call
Buried Talents: Overcoming Gendered Socialization to Answer God's Call Reader's Choice Award WinnerIf God is calling women to lead, what's holding them back? In Buried Talents, she makes clear how…
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Buried Talents: Overcoming Gendered Socialization to Answer God's Call
Reader's Choice Award WinnerIf God is calling women to lead, what's holding them back? In Buried Talents, she makes clear how gender disparity in leadership is directly connected to a larger, less overt issue: gendered socialization. Susan Harris Howell has spent years helping students investigate this question.
As these messages pull men toward leadership, they push women away from it. Howell examines gendered messages people encounter inside and outside the church in each stage of life, showing how they often create misconceptions about who women are, what they're capable of, and how they fit into God's work. God's call to leadership doesn't come in a vacuum.
It comes to particular people who have, from childhood through adulthood, been shaped by subtle forms of socialization. Using social science research and interviews to