Why Are Young Women Leaving Church Faster than Young Men?
Organized religion must re-earn their trust
According to a recent survey, more Gen Z women are disaffiliating from organized religion than Gen Z men. This is the first generation in which women leave faith more often than men.
The Survey Center for American Life talked to nearly 5500 American adults. In that sample, 54% of the Gen Z people who left religion were women. That’s a direct flip of the gender gap among Boomers who leave faith.
It’s not hard to see why.
The survey also found that 65% of Gen Z and 64% of Millennial women believe that churches do not treat men and women equally. Among people aged 65 or older, only 53% of women have the same perception.
More young women recognize the gender discrimination happening in their churches, both explicitly and implicitly, and they’re not having it. Yet we shouldn’t overlook the 53% of older women who also see it.
The Toxic Message of Complementarianism
The Southern Baptist Convention, The Gospel Coalition, Desiring God, and other conservative denominations and platforms have championed a strictly “complementarian” gender hierarchy to anyone who will listen. Men and women have different, but…
