An increasingly popular Christian men's movement, the Promise Keepers advocate seven promises, including that the man will adopt the family leadership role. I fear many women in similar situations are too overwhelmed to speak out. The very voices we need to hear in law, medicine, religion and politics cannot survive in the very male-defined workplace that needs to hear them. Miller-McLemore said she believes the church ought to help eliminate traditional divisions of labor by gender on a very small scale. Men's groups could get flowers for the altar and run the coffee hour after church.
Churches can affirm that children are a gift and they are everyone's responsibility.
Conventional 'wo-man's work' must be both more widely valued and respected and more widely and fairly distributed and shared.