Role of Women in Religion

Women have played key roles in religions throughout the world, though they are frequently less visible on the institutional level. While women have been active within their religions for millennia, our understandings of women’s contributions to their faith communities, as well as the ways in which religious worldviews have helped to shape cultural gender roles, have only fairly recently become the subject 
of research. This topic has central relevance for many of our key cultural debates. Women have always been interested in religion and been extremely active in religion; in fact they’ve been central to all the world’s religions.