John Piper on Limiting Women’s Leadership and Influence

Rachel Miller wrote The Piper Scale of Female Leadership in which she likened John Piper’s views on a woman’s influence and leadership to the Pritchard’s Poetry Scale from Dead Poet’s Society. If you aren’t familiar with the reference to Dead Poet’s Society, I’ve included a clip here at the end of the post.

Recently I was re-reading John Piper’s explanation for what types of careers and jobs are appropriate for women. He goes into a long and complicated description of how to determine what types of leadership and influence a woman can have over a man without doing damage to their masculinity and femininity. It occurred to me that his criteria and subsequent explanation sound a lot like the Pritchard poetry scale from Dead Poet’s Society. So with profound apologies to Robin Williams, Dead Poet’s Society, and the authors of the screenplay, I present to you the Piper Scale of Female Leadership:

“Understanding Female Leadership,” by Dr. J. Stephen Piper, Th.D.

Please click over and read her short post. It’s excellent. 

This comment on her blog is something I will be writing about in another post. Tim said:

His bias shows in saying the purpose is to determine the inappropriate nature of woman’s leadership. Inappropriate is his default position. Otherwise he’d say the scale is for the purpose of determining the appropriateness of the leadership.