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According to a recent survey, an increased percentage of young women have left their churches and identify as religiously unaffiliated.
The survey, released by the The Survey Center on American Life last week, featured a national representative sample of 5,459 American adults in 2023 and examined their views on religion. When compared to older generations, a majority of Gen Z women (57 percent) were found to have disaffiliated from an organized religion.
Meanwhile, men who have left organized religion were seen among baby boomers (57 percent), Generation X (55 percent) and millennials (53 percent), The Christian Postreported.
According to the research, young women’s skepticism about religion primarily deals with the belief that a majority of churches do not “treat men and women equally.” For instance, 65 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 19 believe that churches treat men and women unequally, a belief also held by women between the ages of 30 and 49 (64 percent), women between the ages of 50 and 64 (57 percent), and women aged 65 and older (53 percent).
When men were asked whether churches treated men and women unequally, 55 percent of men between the ages of 30 and 49 answered in the affirmative, as well as 55 percent of men between the ages of 18 and 29, 49 percent of men between the ages of 50 to 64, and 51 percent of men aged 65 and older.
Although Gen Z is the first generation in which a higher percentage of women have left organized religion than men, it is also the first generation in which a larger percentage of women (39 percent) identify as religiously unaffiliated than their male counterparts (34 percent).
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The survey, released by the The Survey Center on American Life last week, featured a national representative sample of 5,459 American adults in 2023 and examined their views on religion. When compared to older generations, a majority of Gen Z women (57 percent) were found to have disaffiliated from an organized religion.
Meanwhile, men who have left organized religion were seen among baby boomers (57 percent), Generation X (55 percent) and millennials (53 percent), The Christian Postreported.
According to the research, young women’s skepticism about religion primarily deals with the belief that a majority of churches do not “treat men and women equally.” For instance, 65 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 19 believe that churches treat men and women unequally, a belief also held by women between the ages of 30 and 49 (64 percent), women between the ages of 50 and 64 (57 percent), and women aged 65 and older (53 percent).
When men were asked whether churches treated men and women unequally, 55 percent of men between the ages of 30 and 49 answered in the affirmative, as well as 55 percent of men between the ages of 18 and 29, 49 percent of men between the ages of 50 to 64, and 51 percent of men aged 65 and older.
Although Gen Z is the first generation in which a higher percentage of women have left organized religion than men, it is also the first generation in which a larger percentage of women (39 percent) identify as religiously unaffiliated than their male counterparts (34 percent).
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Gen Z: More Women Than Men Are Religiously Unaffiliated
According to a recent survey, an increased percentage of young women have left their churches and identify as religiously unaffiliated.
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