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https://greaternw.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/marion-kline.jpg1600900Seventy years after the Methodist Church granted women full clergy rights, the Pacific Northwest Conference has real progress to show; women now hold a slim majority of pastoral positions and outpace men in average compensation. But Patrick Scriven shares that numbers don't capture every experience, and gender equity remains unfinished work inside the Church and beyond it.