The conscience clause reaffirmed by the Lambeth Conference of 1998 exempts bishops from ordaining women. Women have been taken advantage of or silenced in order to fit in. Women clergy avoid any association with feminism. Women ministers often take part-time positions. Women are not in the higher positions in the church hierarchy so they have not had an influence on the formation of doctrine.
Women are slower to attain rectorships that men who are their contemporaries in the seminary.
The rate of parishes requesting a female priest has remained stagnant. Women priests have to prove themselves over and over again. Women who are not feminists get the better jobs. Those opposed to women's ordination play the more traditional women off against the feminists. However women clergy by their very presence HAVE acted as catalysts for change.