As regards the membership of the International House of
Justice, Abdu’l-Baha states in a Tablet that it is confined to men, and that
the wisdom of it will be revealed as manifest as the sun in the future. In any
case the believers should know that, as Abdu’l-Baha Himself has explicitly
stated that sexes are equal except in some cases, the exclusion of women from
the International House of Justice, should not be surprising. From the fact
that there is no equality of functions between the sexes one should not,
however, infer that either sex is inherently superior or inferior to the other,
or that they are unequal in their rights.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a message dated 14 December
1940, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi; ‘Dawn of a New Day’)
