Reading this, and some of your other work on culture, religion, and the specific issue of women in the workforce is whether religions that have a history of "professional" women in religious roles might create cultures that are more welcoming of women working outside the home than those that do not have such a history.
For instance, I note that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam share a similar history, some texts, and many articles of faith. One difference, however, is that Christian churches have a history of women's religious orders (e.g., nuns) that go back to the very founding of the religion. Nuns are career women--sure, unmarried and in the church, and subordinate to priests, but women who have a full-time career outside the home that is appreciated as being valuable nonetheless. Buddhism, similarly, has career women/nuns working for the faith. While they're not adult full-time careers the way being a nun is, Shintoism has paid priestesses. So, while very different religions, Christianity, Buddhism, and Shintoism all have a space for women to work outside the home for the religion.
On the other hand, women as rabbis did not exist until fairly recently, and only among a minority of Jewish congregations now. To this day, Islam does not have women in career religious positions.
So I wonder if this deep history of women working outside the home (albeit, for the church) had a long-term effect of making cultures more friendly toward the idea of women working outside the home in general.
So insightful!
Reading this, and some of your other work on culture, religion, and the specific issue of women in the workforce is whether religions that have a history of "professional" women in religious roles might create cultures that are more welcoming of women working outside the home than those that do not have such a history.
For instance, I note that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam share a similar history, some texts, and many articles of faith. One difference, however, is that Christian churches have a history of women's religious orders (e.g., nuns) that go back to the very founding of the religion. Nuns are career women--sure, unmarried and in the church, and subordinate to priests, but women who have a full-time career outside the home that is appreciated as being valuable nonetheless. Buddhism, similarly, has career women/nuns working for the faith. While they're not adult full-time careers the way being a nun is, Shintoism has paid priestesses. So, while very different religions, Christianity, Buddhism, and Shintoism all have a space for women to work outside the home for the religion.
On the other hand, women as rabbis did not exist until fairly recently, and only among a minority of Jewish congregations now. To this day, Islam does not have women in career religious positions.
So I wonder if this deep history of women working outside the home (albeit, for the church) had a long-term effect of making cultures more friendly toward the idea of women working outside the home in general.
Young women's demand for gender equality is just a shit test & demand to be captured.
https://blog.reaction.la/culture/how-to-restore-a-reproductively-successful-society/
https://blog.reaction.la/culture/emancipation-of-women-was-a-fitness-test-that-we-failed/