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Alison Gent was born in 1920 in the town of Adelaide, South Australia. Gent grew up as an Anglican Christian. Her hometown, Adelaide, was a conservative place to grow up. Her religion was also traditional, not allowing women in leadership roles in the church. Gent was married to an Anglican priest and was a mother. She spoke up against the Anglo-Catholic, starting her activist around journey he 1980s. Alison Gent was extremely involved in the church, yet there was a restriction set in 1978 by the Church of England General Synod that refused to ordain women. She became an extreme advocate for indoctrinating women as priests out of frustration with the restriction. She joined the Women's Liberation Movement while working as a part-time tutor at Adelaide University. In 1983, she was involved in helping develop the Movement for the Ordination of Women. This movement pushed for women's rights to become priests. She served as the vice president for many years. Alison Gent was raised Anglican by a widowed mother. She excelled in all of her university studies growing up, and in 1947, Alison Gent married John Gent, an Anglican priest. They had five children together but ended up splitting up in the year of 1980. Alison had acknowledged women's inequalities in the church, not allowing women in leadership roles. In the same year of her marriage separation, she decided to start a discussion group pertaining to the ordination of women, which derived from her personal exasperation. Alison Gent's "agent of change " is in terms of getting women ordained as priests in the Anglican Church. Lesie McLean has written a doctoral paper about Gent's "agent of change" and her outlook on life. McLean describes Gent as "... a progressive conservative exponent of Catholic Anglican tradition, by temperament a stormy petrel, Gent was always something of a voluntary outsider, a feminist in a male-dominated church and a Christian in a mainly secular women's movement. She wore her difference proudly in all contests. Hers was life freely lived through conscious choice... the first ordination of women in Adelaide was a St Peter's Cathedral was on December 5, 1992."