The percentage of clergy in the United States who are women has exponentially increased over the past several decades, a new report shows.
Dr. Eileen Campbell-Reed, a professor of practical theology at Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas, has released a new report titled “State of Clergywomen in the U.S.: A Statistical Update.”
According to Campbell-Reed, the report is designed to fill a data gap on female clergy that has existed for about 20 years since previous major multi-denominational studies of women’s church leadership were published.
With the assistance of three graduate assistants, Campbell-Reed’s team contacted denominational offices, researched online data and received data from the Association of Theological Schools in the U.S. and Canada to assemble a “snapshot” of today’s clergy gender demographic.
“I knew waiting for another big study might take 20 more years, and I wanted to understand the landscape of women’s progress in leading the church now,” Campbell-Reed said in a statement.
In the 1960s, sociologist Wilbur Bock used census data to suggest that women comprised just 2.3 percent of clergy…
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