{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"News from EWTN Norway","title":"The ‘Gen Z’ flip: Why young women are leaving religion — and how to bring them back - Read by AI","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/afc9bafa\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":322,"description":"The ‘Gen Z’ flip: Why young women are leaving religion — and how to bring them back - Read by AIBy Kate QuiñonesFor the past 20 years, men have left religion at higher rates than women; but for the first time in decades, young men are more likely to stay with it, while young women are leaving, according to a recent study.For the past three generations — baby boomers, Generation X, and millennials — men when surveyed were more likely to have left religion than women.Now, the opposite is true — Generation Z women are more likely to disaffiliate than men, at 54% to 46%, respectively, according to an April survey by the Survey Center on American Life and American Enterprise Institute (AEI).Why they leaveResearchers point to influences such as church teaching on controversial issues. Fifty-four percent of young women are pro-choice, according to a 2022 General Social Survey, and when it comes to the LGBTQ divide, 31% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ compared with 15% of Gen Z men. Young women in general are simply becoming more liberal and progressive, while the newest generation of Catholic priests are markedly more conservative. Meanwhile, secular media such as the Associated Press is observing a traditional renewal in the Catholic Church among young people. What can be made of these trends?Daniel Cox, who headed the survey, believes that the flip has to do with political issues such as abortion.“My own view is that the growing political liberalism among young women, and the rising salience of abortion after the Supreme Court Dobbs decision, is largely responsible for this shift,” Cox told CNA in an email.While 57% of boomers who left their religion were men, only 43% were women. The pattern in men and women continued in Generation X (55% and 45% respectively) and again in the millennial generation (53% and 47%). But Generation Z has flipped the pattern, as only 46% of those who left their formative religion were men, while 54% were women.Noelle Mering, a fellow at...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LnfHlqc795vsiJtROdA1682qZL4lcGYRFoVUlk5TYTA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hYjU2/NWE4ZmY2OTg0NTE5/ZGQ3MTAxMzgwZjAx/MTQzNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}