Chapter 5: Sexism
Like all institutions that are dominated by men, the church has been guilty of sexism. Women have had little to do with the power in the church, even though they have traditionally made up the majority of its membership. God is assumed to be a man and in many churches women still cannot rise to the highest positions.
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