This paper focuses on how, in the second half of the 20th century, in the context of globalization and the changing geographical reach of Orthodox Churches, Orthodox Christianity began to be marked as a bastion of tradition or traditionalism. I will demonstrate how the positioning of Orthodoxy as a traditionalist faith—explicitly articulated from the 1970s onward—gradually led to the exclusion of women's issues from "conciliar" discussions. The paper argues that the systemic exclusion of women's topics from conciliar discourse is not a "traditional" feature of Orthodoxy but rather emerged as part of Orthodoxy's integration into the global cultural wars that originally arose within North American society. The intersection of these cultural wars with latent gender discrimination (despite the dominance of women within Orthodox congregations) will be explored in the presentation.