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  • Dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School, Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University
The number of women religious leaders is growing, but the 2018-2019 National Congregations Study, which surveyed 5,300 U.S. religious communities, found that only 56.4% of these communities would allow a woman to “be head clergy person or primary religious leader.” AP Photo/Young Kwak

Women are finding new ways to influence male‑led faiths

Emily Costello, The Conversation and Thalia Plata, The Conversation

Three female academics discuss how women are forging new pathways in faith leadership throughout religions that traditionally have been patriarchal.

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