Women are not able to see their lives reflected in our images of God

All my life I had faithfully attended worship, Sunday School and Bible Studies.
Not once had I knowingly seen or heard any feminine language for God.
God had always been to me 'Father', 'King', 'Jesus', 'Lord', and 'He'.
I had always assumed that God, like Jesus, bore masculine gender ...
Then in seminary, I made a shocking discovery; the Bible itself uses
feminine language for God ... [what was it] about my social location
that made feminine language for God strike me as a diminishment rather
than an enrichment.
(Houts)

Every week, we worhip a God who has been conceptualised in the image of men. For example, a survey of hymn texts (Wren 116) discovered:

• 290 names for God the First Person (male 76.5 per cent, female none)
• 816 titles for the Second Person of the Trinity (male 64.5 per cent)
• 1423 pronouns for the divine (male 99 per cent, neuter 1 per cent, female none)

'Whatever God's true nature and identity may be, God has been experienced, conceived, and spoken of as masculine' (Johnson).