If a local church remains silent on this issue, women will be unequipped to fulfill their covenantal calling. It is insufficient for churches that hold to male headship simply to compile a list of things that are permissible for women to do. We must go to the Scriptures and determine what is needful for women to do. Gender-aloneness was “not good” in the garden and the same is true in the church. There is no time for a culture of inertia in the church. Feminism is the only paradigm for womanhood