I’ve always wondered why women were so slow to leave religion, as they have been over the last few decades. Men were leaving religion in greater number, even though patriarchal religions like Christianity exalted them, while women were staying, even though their holy books still have passage like 1 Timothy 2:12:

I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.

But that trend is reversing:

Millennials who spurn organized religion tend to reject belief systems before they leave home, said Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of “Generation Me.” One surprising aspect of this well-documented phenomenon: Teenage girls appear to be disproportionately driving the attitude shift. … The majority, however, still practice some form of religion. They’re just “significantly less religiously oriented” than their parents and grandparents, the study said. The trend is especially pronounced among girls and young women. They are still more likely to say they go to church or pray than boys and young men. But the gender gap in religious participation has in recent years significantly shrunk. Over the last four decades, the number of 12th-grade girls who reported never attending church has surged 125 percent. The increase among their male peers was 83 percent. In the late 1970s, 12th-grade boys were 50 percent more likely than girls to say they never go to church, Twenge said. By 2010, that difference haddwindled to 22 percent. “Given shifts away from traditional female roles, females may have been affected more than males,” the study team wrote.

Wonderful. Much of the bible talks about women having to live in subservience (while saying this is what validates their worth). I wouldn’t wish anybody to stay in a system that mistreats them so.