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4. Look at the biblical diagram for marriage that's on page 171. Do you see marriage this way? If not, what is the outline you are working from for your marriage (or future marriage)? Explain.
5. Share your thoughts about helper and head. Are you comfortable with these terms for your marriage or your future marriage? Why or why not?
6. What one or two things stand out to you from the research on marriage provided in chapter 11? Explain. As you observe couples around you, would you say their marriages confirm or challenge the findings of this research? Explain.
7. What is your greatest takeaway from this chapter? Explain.
Post-discussion Takeaways
Now that you have read this chapter and had your discussion time, what personal applications (new beliefs, priorities, behaviors, ways of thinking, etc.) will you leave with? Take a few minutes and record them in the space below.
Session 9
Discussion Questions
Chapter 12
Writing out your initial answers to these questions before your small-group meeting will enhance the quality of your discussions. Take a moment to record your answers.
1. Take time in this final session to review the previous eight discussions you have had together as a group. What has this New Eve study meant to you? What new insights do you believe you will leave with? Be specific.
2. In what ways has this study changed your perspective as a woman?
3. What practical applications from this study do you honestly think you will use?
4. In keeping with the story in chapter 12, what is your biggest challenge to becoming a New Eve?
5. What will be your first bold move?
6. How do you plan to work this bold move into your life? What will be your practical steps? How do you see this bold move changing the way you live life? Explain.
7. Conclude your New Eve study by praying for one another and the bold moves each woman intends to take.
Notes
Chapter 1
1. Douglas B. Sosnik, Matthew J. Dowd, and Ron Fournier, Applebee's America: How Successful Political, Business, and Religious Leaders Connect with the New American Community (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), 224.
2. Celinda Lake and Kellyanne Conway, What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live (New York: Free Press, 2005), 2–3.
3. Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children (New York: Talk Miramax Books, 2002), 133.
4. Peg Tyre and Daniel McGinn, “She Works, He Doesn't,” Newsweek, 12 May 2003.
5. Obtained from the Center for Women's Business Research, based on an analysis of data from the 2000 census.
6. Tyre and McGinn, “She Works, He Doesn't.” Also see Matt Krantz, “More Women Take CFO Roles,” USA Today, 13 October 2004.
7. See “Women Are the Backbone of the Christian Congregations in America,” the Barna Group, 6 May 2000.
8. Michelle Conlin, “The New Gender Gap: From Kindergarten to Grad School, Boys Are Becoming the Second Sex,” BusinessWeek, 26 May 2003.
9. “The Growing Gender Gaps in College Enrollment and Degree Attainment in the U.S. and Their Potential Economic and Social Consequences,” a study prepared by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, May 2003.
10. Tamar Lewin, “At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust,” New York Times, 9 July 2006.
11. “The Condition of Education,” a 379–page report of federal statistics, June 1, 2006.
12. National Center for Education Statistics, http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/ display.asp?id=72.
13. Mary Beth Marklein, “College Gender Gap Widens: 57% Are Women,” USA Today, 19 October 2005.
14. Obtained from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and The Detroit News, “Female MBA Students …,” 29 July 2004.
15. “Full-Time Women MBA Students Outnumber Men for First Time at UNH,” available from the University of New Hampshire's Media Relations Web site, 14 September 2005.
16. “Female Enrollment in U.S. Medical Schools,