t at the outset, perhaps even in a group setting. Then seek their private responses to choices between women and men in a variety of settings of leadership to see which gender they would choose more often. I would venture to guess that there would be a large gap between the responses from the first and last groups mentioned and a wide difference between the response to the first question and the others in the study from the religious group. Religious women may be able to articulate their support for a woman president, but their psychological bias may prevent them from actually voting for one
The United States may indeed elect a woman president in the upcoming decades. But if it does it will be in spite of the pervasive role that religion plays in the lives of its adherents that promote that women are simply not the equal of men.
Karen L. Garst
The Faithless Feminist