Bernice Powell Jackson of the United Church of Christ in the U.S. and the WCC’s North American president, noted that in 1981 the committee resolved that half of its own members and half the members of WCC assemblies should be women. “As a WCC president, I want to express sadness that we seem to have moved away from that commitment,” she said.
Later in the plenary, Kathryn Lohre of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America urged the WCC to conduct a comprehensive study of gender justice issues and develop a policy statement on the role of women in the WCC and its member churches and societies.
