According to a new Gallup poll, one in five Americans wish they could leave the U.S. and permanently relocate to another country. The demographic driving this record-high desire to emigrate are women and teens ages 15 to 44, 40% of…
Boys Line Up on the Right, Girls on the Left
Let me start off by saying that I got the inspiration for this data exercise from reading Dan Cox’s excellent newsletter American Storylines. It was specifically his post from March 20, “The Gender Gap in Church is Growing.”
PRRI leader highlights gap in gender themes this election year
Focusing on American attitudes about gender and gender roles reveals more about the 2024 election than simply tracking the sex of voters, said Melissa Deckman, CEO of Public Religion Research Institute. “That is far more important to understanding American politics,”…
Gallup report highlights the impact of religion on gender inequality in Africa
Nearly three decades after the Beijing Conference on Women — where concerns about gender inequality were expressed — Africa still has a long way to go in bridging that gap, a new Gallup study has found. The report, Gender Power…
South African women’s soccer team success shines a light on gender wage discrimination
There is a lingering giddy feeling that comes with winning a major sports competition. If in doubt, ask South Africans. Since July 23, when the country’s women’s national soccer team, Banyana Banyana, won the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in…
What I learned by listening to women pastors during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a differential impact on women. In particular, working mothers have faced a greater burden of child care and home schooling than men and have ended up leaving the work force in significantly greater numbers than…
How much should we pay the pastor?
By Robert Dilday It may be one of the most uncomfortable — and sometimes contentious — questions in congregational life: How much should we pay our senior pastor? Ministers struggle between commitments to a self-sacrificial calling on the one hand…