BBC News: Pope Francis gives women historic right to vote at meeting
The Pope will for the first time allow women to vote at an influential global meeting of bishops in October – a move that has been welcomed as a historic first. …
…The US-based Women’s Ordination Conference, which advocates for women priests, has called the reform “a significant crack in the stained glass ceiling”.
“For years Vatican representatives and bishops resisted, moving the goalpost with every synod as to why women were not allowed to vote,” the group wrote on Twitter. “The unspoken reason was always sexism.”
“In the near future, we hope that the synod continues to develop into a fully representative body of the people of God.”