Contents -- Introduction -- ONE: Tradition or Transformation: Women's Struggle over Religious Authority and Leadership -- Organizational Development and Opportunities for Women's Leadership -- Women's Leadership in American Religion -- Women's Entry into the Clergy -- The Effects of Occupational Feminization on the Ministry: A Study -- TWO: Clergy in Two Religious Organizations -- Life Chances: A Comparative Study 1920-1994 -- Ordination in Two Religious Traditions -- The Data: Two Decades of Women's Influx -- THREE: Ordination and Entry Jobs: Critical Criteria -- Job Placements -- Gender -- Ordination Status -- Education -- Age -- Prior Occupational Experience -- Marital and Family Status -- Demographic Effects on Entry Placements -- FOUR: The Second Job: Key to the Career Path -- Separating the Women from the Men -- Gender and Ordination Status -- Gender and Job Mobility -- Beyond the Second Placement -- A Career Perspective -- FIVE: Clergy Careers over Time: A 60-Year Portrait -- Job Mobility and Career Attainment -- Women's Place in Clergy Couples -- Men's Careers and the Appearance of Occupational Stability -- Clergywomen's Opportunities for Leadership -- SIX: Decline and Fall of the Young Male Cleric -- The Graying of the Clergy -- Second Career: Asset or Liability? -- Lamentations: Where Have All the Young Men Gone? -- SEVEN: Feminization and Backlash -- Proliferation of New Ordination Tracks -- Gender, Backlash, and Educational Inflation -- The Deconstruction of Full-Time Work -- Gender Segregation in the Clergy -- The Mixed Blessings of Tokenism -- EIGHT: Structural Change in the Ministry -- Shortage or Surplus: The Supply and Demand of Clergy Labor -- Alternative Clergy Labor Supplies -- Clergy versus Laity: The Emergence of Clericalism -- Professionalism and Deprofessionalization -- A Future of Nonstipendiary Clergy.

Occupational Feminization and Male Exodus -- Occupational Change and Organizational Response -- NINE: Clergy Feminization: Controlled Labor or Liberationist Change? -- The Future of Women Clergy -- Women and the Future of the Clergy -- Women Clergy and the Future of Liberationist Change -- A Concluding Unscientific Postscript on Gender and Organized Religion -- Appendix A: Clergy Job Titles Aggregated by Job Level -- Appendix B: Demographic Variables -- Appendix C: Mean (average) Career Trajectory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.