"As regards your question concerning the membership of the Universal House
of Justice, there is a Tablet from 'Abdu'l-Baha in which He definitely
states that the membership of the Universal House is confined to men and
that the wisdom of it will be fully revealed in the future. In the local,
as well as the National Houses of Justice, however, women have the full
right of membership. It is therefore, only to the International House that
they cannot be elected. The Baha'is should accept this statement of the
Master in a spirit of deep faith, confident that there is a divine
guidance and wisdom behind it, which will be gradually unfolded to the
eyes of the world."
"Regarding your question, the Master said the wisdom of having no women on
the International House of Justice, would become manifest in the future.
We have no other indication than this.
"At present there are women on the International Council, and this will
continue as long as it exists, but when the International House of Justice
is elected, there will only be men on it, as this is the law of the
Aqdas."