Word: steeplehood
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...Moreover, she warns, "I'm very liberal. I'm very outspoken. I'm not eager to move." And the biggest churches, she says, require CEOs. "Am I a CEO kind of pastor? There are so many other things to consider beyond just climbing the ladder." Perhaps, she suggests, tall-steeplehood is a particularly male way of measuring female progress. "We're often happier in middle-to small-size churches," she says. Only time will tell whether she's truly describing herself--and whether, once the most glittering pulpits inevitably open to women, it won't seem like the answer...
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