Clergywomen numbers increased significantly in two decades, sometimes equaling men

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

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/

[MineralMan]

1. While that is true in some Protestant

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denominations, those denominations make up a small minority of Christians, worldwide. The RCC, the largest single denomination of all, has zero women in its clergy. Many other denominations, including some large protestant and most Orthodox ones, also do not allow women as clergy.

So, the increase is limited by those factors. Women make up only a small minority of Christian clergy.