- Episcopalians (TEC) have ordained women for nearly 50 years.
- As of 2019, 38% of Episcopal priests, and 21% of Episcopalian bishops, were women.
- All dioceses have ordained women priests.
- And of course there are also women bishops (since 1989); the first woman primate was named in 2006.
The Church of England (about 1.1 million members and head of the 85 million-member Anglican Communion) green-lighted women priests 31 years ago.
- In 2017, 30% of clergy in the C of E were women, and in 2018, 54% of those starting clerical training in the C of E were women.
The majority of the Anglican Communion have ordained women priests, and many have elected bishops.
Perhaps you are thinking of one of the conservative Episcopal breakaway groups/the Continuing Anglican effort? Of course there are protests and breakaway groups - it is the Anglican/Episcopal Church/community, after all.
The Anglican Church of North America (ACNA) might be the largest single breakaway church* (about 125,000 members) - it broke away from TEC in 2009, in the interest of a more conservative/ orthodox Anglicanism. The ACNA is not part of the Anglican Communion**. (At least one parish of the ACNA joined TEC last year.). The ACNA seeks entry into the Anglican Communion but do not yet have it.
The ACNA was created by the American Anglican Council (AAC). The AAC
position on women priests:
The AAC has individual members and affiliate congregations/ministries with differing views on women’s ordination, and we respect these differing opinions. We also partner with provinces around the Global Anglican Communion, including the ACNA, who also have differing views. The AAC is committed to finding continued common ground in our work with all Anglican provinces, despite differing views on such issues, towards a more conciliar approach to Anglicanism worldwide.
As for the ACNA itself, they said this about women priests in 2017:
We agree that there is insufficient scriptural warrant to accept women’s ordination to the priesthood as standard practice throughout the Province. However, we continue to acknowledge that individual dioceses have constitutional authority to ordain women to the priesthood.
(The ACNA does not permit women to be elected bishops, however.)
Tl, dr: Episcopalianism endorses women clergy. In the wider Anglican Communion, women clergy continue to become more commonplace, particularly in English-speaking countries' churches. The largest conservative (Continuing) Anglican church in America has taken a Federalist approach to women priests.
*
There are a number of other minor Anglican churches, some gathered under the Traditional Anglican Church (TAC) (until 2020, the Traditional Anglican Communion) (total members, with 14 communion partners across 6 continents, about 300,000) umbrella. It's a constantly changing set of alliances/ communions.
**
The ACNA is in communion with following - cheers!:
- The Anglican Church of Nigeria
- The Anglican Church of Kenya
- The Church of Uganda
- The Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America
- Province de L’Eglise Anglicane au Rwanda
- The Anglican Church of Tanzania
- The Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East
- Province de L’Eglise Anglicane Du Congo
- The Church of the Province of South East Asia