Using data from separate studies conducted in 1988-89 and 1998, we explore changes in the issue agendas of women clergy. Rosenstone and Hansen (1993) argue persuasively that mobilization often occurs due to a commitment to a particular political issue. Our data allow us to test three separate hypotheses about the evolution of women clergy's issue agendas over the course of a decade that saw an unprecedented number of women enter the ministry. Shifts in the issue agendas of women clergy suggest a model of issue agenda evolution including four possible explanations for change: public agenda shifts, changes resulting from the growing number of women clergy, or ideological stability.In July, 1848, Seneca Falls, New York played host to one of the first organized meetings to discuss women's rights. One of the many resolutions debated at Seneca Falls during the drafting of the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, a bold assertion of women's equality modeled on the Declaration of Independence, stated "that the speedy success of our cause depends upon the zealous and untiring efforts of both men and women, for the overthrow of the monopoly of the pulpit, and for the securing to women an equal participation with men in the various trades, professions, and commerce." 1 While it took many generations of struggle before women were allowed to enter the male-dominated ministry, the pulpit has recently become more hospitable to women (Lehman 1985;Wuthnow 1988). Women now constitute about 10 percent of all American religious leaders (Chang 1997), and their ranks continue to expand (Zikmund, Lummis, and Chang 1998).As such, the political significance of women clergy may be expected to increase in decades to come (Hunter and Sargeant 1993), particularly in light of the so-called "gender gap" that appears to be separating the politics of men and women in the United States (Kaufmann and Petrocik 1999;Seltzer, Newman, and Leighton 1997;Trevor 1999;Welch 1977). What might be the political implications of the influx of women into the ministry? To begin to answer this question, we explore the extent to which the issues women clergy identify as most important to them changed from 1988 to 1998, over the course of a decade during which increasing numbers of women entered the ministry.We rely on two separate sets of data-one from 1988-89 and one from 1998-that allow us to assess changes in the issue agendas (which we define as the political issues people say are most important to them) of mainline Protestant women clergy. 2