Women in religion

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Leadership of religious organizations has been for hundreds of years performed by males. However, it has always been acknowledged that much religious work as well as support of the institutional church has been done by women.

Currents in the four major religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Hinduism) have continued to assert male supremacy in some form. The Roman Catholic Church forbids women to be priests. The Episcopal Church in the U.S. permits female ordination and elevation of women to the episcopate.