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Women lead religious groups in many ways – besides the growing number who have been ordained

  • Written by Deborah Whitehead, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Women lead religious groups in many ways – besides the growing number who have been ordainedRabbi Diana Villa, center, with colleagues at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, in Jerusalem, in 2013.AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner

What constitutes women’s leadership in religious communities is open to many interpretations. In the U.S., more attention has been given to women’s ordination because of the highly public and visible...

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