Read Unladylike as soon as it comes out 

When my co conspirator Pam says "Many of us are convinced that the issue of equality of women in the church is a distraction from the real mission of the church, so it’s best we don’t make a fuss and mind our manners." 

She reminds me of what my favorite historian Barbara Tuchman said in A Distant Mirror

" in the scales of history inertia outweighs that of change"