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Talk about timing, just hours before the first bombs fell on Baghdad in the Second Gulf War, a group, of Muslim and Christian men and women gathered to imagine how the world-might be different if leadership in churches, mosques and society were more open to women. Speakers at the two-day conference, "Sisters: Women, Religion and Leadership in Christianity and Islam," at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago focused on the leadership positions in their respective faith traditions that are currently closed to women. They also discussed positive examples of past and current visionary women leaders and the need to create new ways of leading that better reflect women's contributions. "The solution is not to take traditional roles and substitute the people who have been excluded into them," said Ingrid Mattson, associate professor of Islam at Hartford Seminary and vice president of the Islamic Society of North America, based in Plainfield, Ind. That misguided thinking is exemplified by the question most frequently asked of Mattson by non-Muslims: Can a woman be an imam? The question itself, she says, is problematic because it assumes clergy are the most important leaders, which is not necessarily true in Islam. ("Imam" literally means "leader" in Arabic and refers to the formal leader of prayer in a mosque.)

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