Clergywomen numbers increased significantly in two decades, sometimes equaling men [View all]

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The share of women in the ranks of American clergy has doubled — and sometimes tripled — in some denominations over the last two decades, a new report shows.
“I was really surprised in a way, at how much progress there’s been in 20 years,” said the report’s author, Eileen Campbell-Reed, an associate professor at Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tenn. “There’s kind of a circulating idea that, oh well, women in ministry has kind of plateaued and there really hasn’t been lot of growth. And that’s just not true.”

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https://religionnews.com/2018/10/18/clergywomen-numbers-increased-significantly-in-two-decades-sometimes-equaling-men/