Atheist Women: Why so few? What Does the Research Say?

Why are there so few women atheists? What do current studies reveal about this disparity? Is this phenomenon attributable to biological, psychological or social factors, and what implications does it have for the secularization of society? Also, why do men tend to abandon religion or adopt atheism at a considerably higher rate than women? Atheism & Gender Please, support Religiolog through a one-time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/relig... Or become my Patron:   / 4religiolog   #atheism #historyofatheism #freethought Check out my over videos: Freethought Women Who Shaped History    • Freethought Women Who Shaped History: Famo...   History of Atheism in the Ancient World (Greece and Rome)| Tim Whitmarsh -    • Is Monotheism an Anomaly? History of Athei...   ATHEISM in Medieval Islam. -    • ATHEISM in Medieval Islam. Freethinkers of...   What is secularism? -    • What is Secularism? 3 types of secularism:...   Atheism in the USSR under Brezhnev. The Institute of Scientific Atheism.    • Positive Atheism in the USSR (1960s-70s). ...   Bibliography: • Trzebiatowska, Marta, and Steve Bruce. Why Are Women More Religious Than Men? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. • Mahlamäki, Tiina. 2022. Why Are Men More Likely to Be Atheists Than Women? In Teemu Taira (ed.) Atheism in Five Minutes. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing. Pages 105–108. • Brewster, M. E. 2013. “Atheism, gender, and sexuality,” in S. Bullivant and M. Ruse (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Atheism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 511-24. • Edgell, Penny, Jacqui Frost, and Evan Stewart. “From Existential to Social Understanding of Risk: Examining Gender Differences in Nonreligion.” Social Compass 4(6) (2017): 556– 574. • Schnabel, L. 2016. “Religion and gender equality worldwide: a country level analysis.” Social Indicators Research 129(2), 893 907. • Guenther, K. M. 2019. “Secular sexism: the persistence of gender inequality in the US New Atheist Movement.” Women’s Studies International Forum, 72, 47 55. • Chavez, M., Anderson, S. L., and Eagle, A. 2014. “National Congregations Study, cumulative dataset (1998, 2006 2007, and 2012), V2.” Distributed by the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA). Available at: www.thearda.com/conQS/qs 236 .asp. • Bloom, P. B. N. 2016. “State level restriction of religious freedom and women’s rights: a global analysis.” Political Studies 64(4), 832 53. • Brewster, M. E. (ed.) 2014. Atheists in America. New York: Columbia University Press. • Gaylor, A. L. (ed.) 1997. Women Without Superstition: No Gods No Masters: The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Madison, WI: Freedom from Religion Foundation. • Mooney, C. 2011. “The future of irreligion, part 2: a conversation with Barry A. Kosmin.” Free Inquiry 31(8), 44. • Kosmin, B. A. 2014. “The vitality of soft secularism in the United States and the challenge posed by the growth of the nones,” in J. Berlinblau, S. Fainberg, and A. Nou (eds.) Secularism on the Edge. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 35 49. • Woodhead, L. 2007. “Gender differences in religious practice and significance,” in J. Beckford and N. J. Demerath III (eds.) The Sage Handbook of the Sociology of Religion. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 550 70.