I was baptized in a Methodist church and attended as a young child - The Methodist Church allows women to fill all of the same roles as men. I then attended an Evangelical Free church as a teen and young adult (age 12-17) and while I was considering it as an option for myself was told rather sternly that it would be a sin and those who followed me would be, in turn, sinners. I was so appalled not only but what I was told but the way it was said to me that I never went back. The minister that was so harsh with me has even since left but I don't care to return. And I've yet to find another church I feel comfortable in since then (12 yrs ago) so I haven't stuck with one for any long period of time. My boyfriend now is Methodist as well though so we're trying to find a Methodist church with a younger, more active, congregation which is proving quite difficult where we live.

What I voted for... and... Other? Can be a member of a religious order and society.

I don't attend a church so I won't vote in the poll, but in my synagogue there is a female Rabbi and a female Cantor.

Females can also teach in the religious school, or be the temple president.

I consider myself nonreligious, but for a while I was attending the Mormon (Latter Day Saints) church and women were not able to hold the priesthood, perform baptisms, etc.

I'm Catholic, so not much in the way of leadership roles for women.

I was raised Catholic, although I don't practice the Catholic faith. (I refuse to be a Cafeteria Catholic and so I don't do it at all.) So, very little is available for women to do. I think they can give communion now, at least that is what I am told.

When I was a child, women were not even allowed on the altar. With our seething sexuality and all that obviously we didn't belong...

i attend a non-denominational church and women can do anything men can.

in my parents' church, women can only teach sunday school. they're not allowed to anything else (they're mormon, what do you expect)....