1. 2025-10. Why Only Men are Allowed on the Universal House of Justice. Jalal Sunstrum. A brief essay on why only men are allowed to be elected on the Universal House of Justice, from the perspective of one believer.
2. 2023. Bahá'í Faith and the Equality, Rights, and Advancement of Women, The: A Survey of Principles, Praxis, and Discourse. Wendi Momen. Equality of women and men; education, advancement, and rights of women and girls; their application within the Bahá’í community; Bahá'í individual and institutional efforts to influence the international discourse on women. Link to article (offsite).
3. 2021-02. Universal House of Justice, The. Universal House of Justice, Research Department, comp. Compilation about the "Universal House of Justice" from the writings of Bahá’u’lláh, 'Abdu’l-Bahá, and Shoghi Effendi, and from the constitution and letters of the Universal House of Justice.
4. 2015. Women and Wisdom in Scripture. Baharieh Rouhani Ma'ani. Treatment of women in religion; influence of Bahá'í teachings in raising awareness about the plight of women and transforming attitudes across the globe; role of linguistic biases in degrading their status; role of wisdom in achieving gender equality.
5. 2013-12-22. Confinement of the Membership of the Universal House of Justice to Men, The. Universal House of Justice. Affirms gender equality in the Bahá’í Faith, while upholding men's exclusive eligibility for the Universal House of Justice as divinely ordained but unexplained.
6. 2011. Why There are No Women in the Universal House of Justice. Vladimir Chupin. Upon learning that it is forbidden to elect women to the Universal House of Justice, many people become puzzled, given the Faith's strong emphasis on the equality of the sexes. This essay offers some perspectives.
7. 1999. Father and the Maiden, The: The Abrahamic Patriarchate and the Divine Feminine. Mark A. Foster. While the outward structure of the Bahá'í Faith may be patriarchal, the spirit of the age is expressed in the divine feminine. 
8. 1998. Seed of Creation: A philosophical approach towards the status of Universal House of Justice in respect to Baha'i concept of creation. Ahmad Aniss. A philosophical approach towards the status of Universal House of Justice in respect to Bahá'í concept of creation.
9. 1997-03-30. Women on the House of Justice; meaning of "Umumi". Universal House of Justice. Clarifies that 'Abdu'l-Bahá, in a tablet to Corinne True, indeed refers to the Universal House of Justice when affirming that membership is confined to men only. Includes a portion of Corinne True's original query to 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
10. 1996-06-27. Monogamy, Sexual Equality, Marital Equality, and the Supreme Tribunal. Universal House of Justice. Questions about monogamy, the Supreme Tribunal, and the Bahá'í concept of equality of the sexes in light of some Bahá'í laws and history which appear to undermine it
11. 1996-06-14. Infallibility, Omniscience, and the Decision-making Role of the Universal House of Justice. Universal House of Justice. On the difference between infallibility and omniscience and whether the Universal House of Justice could reach a wrong decision,
12. 1996. Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986: Third Epoch of the Formative Age. Universal House of Justice, Geoffrey W. Marks, comp. .
13. 1994-08-01. How Individuals Can Improve Their Understanding of the Bahá'í Teachings. Universal House of Justice. On the inability of the finite human mind to fully grasp the import of the Teachings, and how individuals can improve their understandings, even while steeped in a climate of thinking which influences and biases their reading of scientific evidence.
14. 1992-02-23. Goddess Religion, Ancient. Universal House of Justice. Ancient goddess religions and the role of the feminine in theology.
15. 1988-05-31. Elegibilidad de las Mujeres en la Casa Universal de Justicia. Universal House of Justice, Cortesía, trans. .
16. 1988-05-31. Women on the Universal House of Justice. Universal House of Justice. Response to a paper presented at a Bahá'í Studies conference which raised the possibility that women could one day be eligible for membership on the Universal House of Justice.
17. 1986-10-27. Places Where the Manifestations of God Have Appeared; Equality of Men and Women. Universal House of Justice. The consistent portrayal of all known Manifestations of God as male and their historical emergence exclusively in the East; the equality of men and women; on soul mates.
18. 1952-05. Pilgrim Notes. Ted Cardell. Notes from a visit with the Guardian, likely written in 1990 from journal entries taken while on pilgrimage in 1952 to Haifa, from a pioneering post in Kenya.
19. 1909-07-29. Letter to Corinne True re Women on the House of Justice. Abdu'l-Bahá, Ameen Ullah Fareed, trans. . Translation by Amín Faríd of a short letter stating that "men and women are equal in all rights save in the Universal House of Justice; for the Chairman and the members of the House of Justice are men according to the Text of the Book."

1. 1986-01-01 —
   The publication of the compilation entitled "Women" by the Universal House of Justice. [Messages63-86p704, Compilation of CompilationsVol 2 p355]
   • Also see a message to an individual from the Universal House of Justice entitled "Women - Their Role in Society and the Establishment of Peace; Membership on the Universal House of Justice". [Messages63-86p707-709]
2. 1988-05-31 — The Universal House of Justice wrote to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of New Zealand to comment on a paper titled The Service of Women on the Institutions of the Baha'i Faith presented at the New Zealand Bahai Studies Association Conference in Christchurch earlier that month.

   The paper raised the possibility that the ineligibility of women for membership on the Universal House of Justice may be a temporary provision subject to change through a process of progressive unfoldment of the divine purpose. [31 May 1988]

3. 2026-02-07 — The passing of Glenford E. Mitchell (b. 3 March 1935 in Jamaica) in Decatur, GA, USA.
   As a young man Mr Mitchell moved from Jamaica to North Carolina to attend university and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in business education from Shaw University in 1960. He then completed a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University in New York graduating in 1962. He was later awarded an honourary Doctor of Letters by the National College of Education in Evanston, Illinois, in 1980. He worked in publishing and was appointed as an instructor in English and journalism at Howard University in Washington D.C.
   In 1967 he became the managing editor of the Bahá’í World Order Magazine and in 1968 he was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States as Secretary, an office he held for fourteen years.
   In 1982 he was elected to the Universal House of Justice and served until his retirement in 2008 when he returned to the United States.
   Publications
   1962 - The Angry Black South: outhern Negroes Tell Their Own Story, (co-editor with William H. Peace III) published in 1962 by Corinth Books, New York
   1972 - The Literature of Interpretation: Notes on the English Writings of Shoghi Effendi, article published in World Order, 7:2, pages 12-37 and available on Bahá'í Library Online.
   1997 - Shoghi Effendi: Guide for a New Millennium
   2009 - Bahá'í Administration, article published in The Bahá'í Encyclopedia. [Bahaipedia; BWNS1854]

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