It is a life-long process of sanctification that over time allows us to transcend our experience and to see the fullness of God's created reality. Here, the public world is associated with men. It is the world of activity, logic, reasoning, leadership, authority and culture. The building of institutions, bridges, railroads and companies, and the leading of nations and armies occur in what we have categorized as public endeavors. This work has been associated with men.
Public life provides men a way to transcend the mundane of life.
The private world of the home has been associated with women and as a place of reproduction, emotion, intuition and dependency. The biblical worldview sees life as one thing. All of our lives are wholly before God and both male and female are created in the image of God with the cultural mandate to multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. We must question the western ideas and structures that impeded the full humanity of us all. We must question and be honest about our western cultural heritage in which there are countless ways women are mocked and devalued.