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Permalink Reply by Helena on December 11, 2011 at 5:09pm

This is interesting, as here I have found the reverse to be true. Maybe it is cultural?

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on December 11, 2011 at 5:18pm

Well, Helena, you can assume that almost everyone here is here because they are rational and relatively un-dominated by emotion.

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Permalink Reply by Jean Clelland-Morin on December 11, 2011 at 5:21pm

Women live longer than men. Old women are stuck with the brainwashing. I think women are still in a relatively subservient position and are afraid to say they are not believers. Or they are more afraid of hurting their brainwashed parents by admiting. I'm sure you have a source for your statement, Sassan, but this is the first I've heard of this. / Jean

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Permalink Reply by rhetrix on December 11, 2011 at 5:48pm

I think it does have to do with both emotions and education. . .

there is still an imbalance in the the ratios of women:men in math and science careers. . .I'd argue it's not just about the amount of education, but also the field in which one specializes . . .

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Permalink Reply by Helena on December 11, 2011 at 5:49pm

Then why in Australia, are there more female atheists? Still reckon its CULTURAL.

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on December 12, 2011 at 6:00am

Really? Australia more women are atheist?

That definitely would be key evidence that it is more likely more cultural. But anyhow, sorry I haven't responded to my own thread. Been studying for my finals this week. Off to bed and I will respond further to the other replies tomorrow.

Gnite :)

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on December 11, 2011 at 6:32pm

Clearly, women as a gender are more drawn to service professions than men are. Nursing, teaching, social work. None of them require strong math skills. Nursing is the most technical, involving a basic understanding of pharmaceutical chemistry and a strong understanding of biology.

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Permalink Reply by Barbara Gant on December 11, 2011 at 5:49pm

Great topic, however we need to know more stats on this study. Country, age group, gay, straight, what's up?

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Permalink Reply by Becca on December 11, 2011 at 5:54pm

Women are the more social of the two sexes. Our survival strategy and our strategy to ensure the survival of our offspring is about social connections. People who have good strong secure social connections in many ways are more successful and healthy than those people who have insecure and weak social connections. It's not so much the faith/belief part of religion that keeps women form being atheist. It's the loss of the social structure and community that religion so readily provides that keeps many women from being atheist.

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Permalink Reply by Becca on December 11, 2011 at 6:02pm

I'd also like to add that I completely disagree that women are more emotional. Women in practically every culture out there are allowed more than men to show their emotions outwardly and men are expected to keep outward expression of emotions at a minimum. I don't think emotions are a factor in the number of atheist women.

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Permalink Reply by KaraC on December 11, 2011 at 6:12pm

Hate to feed stereotypes, but friends of mine who have been on HRT (male to female transsexuals) are both self-reportedly and observably way more emotional. Now of course, this could be due to psychological factors, but I think there may be a tendency for women to be more empathetic.

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Permalink Reply by Albert Bakker on December 12, 2011 at 1:09am

I think you (I, we all) have to distinguish between empathy and emotionality, the latter can easily be a display of self absorption. While women by and large do seem to be more empathetic than men, it may have to do with different neurophysiological strategies (there seem to be gender differences in levels of activation of different parts of the brain) and hence you may find there will be less difference in acting upon the recognition of other people's emotional stress as there will be in self reported emotional affliction by it.

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