Barna: Percent of Female Senior Pastors Doubled Over Past 10 Years
The percentage of U.S. Protestant women serving as senior pastors has doubled over the past decade, according to the latest study by the Barna Group.
Throughout most of the 1990s, just five percent of Protestant senior pastors were female. Since that time, the proportion has slowly but steadily risen, doubling to 10 percent in 2009.
The new study “indicates that women have made substantial gains in the past ten years,” the Barna Group reported Monday.