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Two weeks ago, the Assemblies of God General Council elected a woman to its executive leadership. After more than 100 years in existence, Ohio minister Donna Barrett now holds the role of Assemblies of God general secretary, the third-highest position in the denomination.\nIn May, the Foursquare Church\u2019s Tammy Dunahoo ran unsuccessfully for the denomination\u2019s presidency. If Dunahoo would have been elected, she would have been the first female president since the denomination\u2019s founder, Aimee Semple McPherson.\nThough women have largely been absent from denominational leadership structures, that women have been allowed to preach from the beginning of the movement makes them unique among Protestant traditions.Historically, Pentecostals \u201cdidn\u2019t prefer the traditional method of leadership identification,\u201d said Leah Payne, the author of Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism: Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century. \u201cThey did, in fact, reject things like seminary.\u201d\nPeople preferred calling because it existed outside of these types of structures and institutions.\u201cPlus you could be five years old and receive a calling,\u201d said Payne.\nPayne joined digital media producer Morgan Lee and editor in chief Mark Galli to discuss why women have struggled to advance past the pastorate, the unique ways Pentecostals understand church leadership, and why many Pentecostal churches have pastor couples that lead churches together.\nWhat is \u201c Quick to Listen\u201d? Read more\n\nSubscribe to Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts\n\nFollow the podcast on Twitter\n\nFollow our host on Twitter: Morgan Lee\n\nRead Aimee Semple McPherson\u2019s "Is Jesus Christ the Great I Am? Or Is He the Great I Was?" sermon\n\nListen to Weird Religion\n\nSubscribe to Mark\u2019s newsletter: The Galli Report\n\nMusic by Sweeps\n\nQuick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Lindor\n\nThis episode of Quick to Listen is brought to you in part by Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God's Image, a newly updated and combined book by Paul Brand and Philip Yancey, from InterVarsity Press. For 40% off and free US shipping on this book and any other IVP title, visit ivpress.com and use promo code POD19.\nThis episode of Quick to Listen \xa0is also brought to you by Focus on the Family\u2019s " Bring Your Bible to School Day" powered by students nationwide October 3. When you sign up to participate, you\u2019ll also be entered to win a trip to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices