[The Melbourne Anglican] Christian women leaders will discuss violence, abuse and coercive control of women in the church as part of an upcoming national conference, which will take place Nov. 28-20 at St. John’s Cathedral in Brisbane.
The 40th anniversary gathering for the Movement for the Ordination of Women aims to examine women’s experiences in Christian ministry, including the obstacles they face and how that affects their progress and leadership. MOW president Elaine Lindsay said the need to support lay and ordained women leaders was important, particularly given a recent gender disparity report describing the barriers they experienced in the Canberra and Goulburn diocese.
She said concerns raised in the report, including about theologically trained women being overlooked for leadership roles in favor of men from outside the diocese, attested how progression wasn’t as open to women as it was to men.
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