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The conference aimed to encourage churches to address injustices to women worldwide and promote equal partnership with men at all levels of religious life. [4] In recognition of supporters' view that traditional Christianity 's male-centered language and images have often stifled and hurt women, organizers chose "re-imagining" as the theme.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is one of two associations of the leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States (the other being the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious). LCWR includes over 1300 members, who are members of 302 religious congregations that include 33,431 women religious ...
Headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., WMU is a nonprofit organization that offers an array of missions resources including conferences, ministry ideas and models, volunteer opportunities, curriculum for age-level organizations, leadership training, books and more."
Members of Koinonia worship during a service at the Bordeaux church in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, April 2, 2023. Recently, Koinonia changed denominations following a discernment study that focused ...
Women's Ordination Conference, 1975, Detroit, Michigan, advocating ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church; 1977 National Women's Conference, held in Houston, Texas, with 2,000 delegates and over 15,000 observers; 1977 Women's National Conference: Minority-Latino-Women; World Conference on Women, 1980, Copenhagen, Denmark, second in a ...
Women's Caucus for Art; The Women's Conference; List of women's conferences; Women's International Networking Conference; Women's Ordination Conference; World Conference on Women, 1975; World Conference on Women, 1980; World Conference on Women, 1985; World Conference on Women, 1995; World's Congress of Representative Women
Environmentalist Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an impressive feat in and of itself.What's even more admirable was her work in science, a field in which women faced many obstacles, as well as the time she spent getting her Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT– well, almost.
Church Women United (CWU) is a national ecumenical Christian women's movement representing Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and other Christian women. Founded in 1941, as the United Council of Church Women , [ 1 ] this organization has more than 1,200 local and state units in the United States and Puerto Rico .