20 February 2014, The Tablet

Women’s woes


 
Aa successfil businesswoman, Julia Ogilvy knows about breaking through glass ceilings. Now the wife of James Ogilvy, whose mother, Princess Alexandra, is the Queen’s first cousin, has produced a book on the prejudice suffered by woman in the Christian Churches. Women in Waiting: prejudice at the heart of the Church (out in March, Bloomsbury Continuum, £14.99) is a collection of interviews with 12 notable Christian women, including the presiding bishop of the US Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori; the dean of York, the Revd Vivienne Faull; and Baroness (Helena) Kennedy QC, a Catholic who is also a trustee of The Tablet. “The concept of ‘prejudice at the heart of the Church’ is controversial but there are few contemporary issues that have caused as muc
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