Sample Questions to Interview a PW
- I’d love to know more than your Presbyterian/PW life but how much time will all this take!! Can you share a brief summary or a story that illustrates your life or highlights from your life in general?
- How many siblings did you have? Where were you in the line-up? Have you remained close?
- How have your attitudes toward women’s roles changed?
- What was a day in the life of your childhood like? As a young woman? As an older woman?
- Were you from a mostly homogeneous community? Or were you from an ethnically diverse community?
- How has communications technology changed your life?
- Were you from city or countryside? What was your education? How did you experience the women’s rights movement?
- Did you balance career, church, family? Has volunteerism been your career? What have been your chief occupations/life’s work?
- What are some of the most rewarding PW activities in which you have participated?
- When did you begin participating in PW?
- How did you learn about/get involved with Presbyterian Women?
- When did you first hear of PW? Can you tell me what role PW played in your life when you were growing up?
- How have I changed you or helped you grow?
- Why did you want to do the StoryCorps interview?
- Tell me about the role of PW in your life when you were growing up
- What kind of role does PW play in your life now? What does PW mean to you?
- Can you share one of your most memorable PW experiences?
- How has PW changed or shaped your imagination and beliefs about God?
- Where were you born and when?
- Were you born into the Presbyterian Church?
- If you were not born in a Presbyterian family, when and how did you come to the Presbyterian Church?