The Furlong Table
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This table uses the latest Church of England figures recently released, for 2005, to analyse how women are being employed and promoted within the clergy in different dioceses. The table was first compiled in 2000 and significant progress can be seen. |
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Key Results
The figures are moving in the right direction and are pleasingly up! The average points score has risen by over a third from 2000 to 2005, from 18.6 to 25.8. This is made up of an on average doubling of the points received from women in senior posts, together with a 50% increase in the number of other ordained women in full time stipendiary posts in the dioceses. A perfect score in this table would be 100, representing 50% of senior clergy and 50% of all other full time stipendiary clergy in a diocese being female. So the top score of 39.9 is still disappointingly low. It means that in Oxford, the best diocese in the Church of England for women’s deployment in 2005, women had been appointed to 17% of senior clergy posts, and 23% of other clergy were female. Women now account for 17% of full time stipendiary clergy in the dioceses of the Church of England (up from just under 12% in 2000), and for 8% (weighted) of senior posts (deans, archdeacons, other cathedral clergy and area deans). Overall in the Church of England in 2005 women represented 5% of cathedral deans, 6% of archdeacons, 14% of other cathedral clergy and 8% of area/rural deans. (For the purposes of this table, deans and archdeacons have been double weighted.) Oxford rose 15 places to take the top of the league table. The greatest percentage change was for Truro diocese, which saw its score increase by 354%! Truro was joint with Durham diocese for the biggest rise up the table, both gaining a massive 26 places. Truro rose from 40th place (out of 43) to 14th, whilst Durham rose from 34th to 8th. Other dioceses which saw big gains were Derby, up 17 places from 35th to 18th , and Peterborough, up 15 places from 26th to 11th. Three dioceses have fallen badly in the tables. Bristol fell 27 places, from 11th to 38th. Guildford fell 23 places from 7th to 30th , whilst Rochester fell 17 places from 18th to 35th. |
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| The Furlong Table is produced for GRAS, and is named in honour of the late Monica Furlong, a tireless campaigner for the ordination of women. She suggested to a group of young female ordinands in 2000 that statistics be gathered to monitor the employment and promotion of women in the Church of England, and the first table was produced by Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, Catherine Butt and Leah Vasey-Saunders, all then students at Cranmer Hall theological college in Durham. These updated figures for 2005 have been produced by (the Revd. Dr.) Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, now Chaplain and Solway Fellow of University College, Durham.
M.T-H, May 2007 |
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