Key Findings: Religion

Although women overall constitute a majority of churchgoers (60 percent), men continue to dominate leadership roles in the church and temple.
On average, in Judeo-Christian faith traditions in the U.S., women currently make up only about 15 percent of Protestant clergy and rabbis.
More women than ever are training for leadership: the proportion of women in Protestant seminaries nearly tripled over the last few decades; today, about half of all Reform Jewish seminary students are female.
Until there is a change both in the rule prohibiting women from ministerial leadership in the Catholic Church, Orthodox Judaism and Islam, and in the resistance to women’s leadership that remains in other religions, women will continue to face an unbreakable stained-glass ceiling.

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