In the Dispensation
of Baha'u'llah, women are advancing side by side with men. There is no area or
instance where they will lag behind: they have equal rights with men, and will
enter, in the future, into all branches of the administration of society. Such
will be their elevation that, in every area of endeavor, they will occupy the
highest levels in the human world....
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, quoted by the Universal House of Justice in a letter
dated 24 December 1980 written on its behalf to an individual believer)
