Women have been treated unequally when it comes to women being able to become religious leaders, but this is something that has improved over the years and can still continue to improve to this day. One thing that you can’t change is what is said in religious texts. In Hinduism they have the Law Code of Manu, this is a book of moral advice. It starts by saying that men should treat women with respect, but then after that it goes on to say that women cannot act independently from men and that married women must treat their husband like a god. By saying that women can’t act individually without a male …show more content…
Some of the biggest religions in the world have branches in them that do not allow women to become religious leaders. These religions include, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. These religions take up about 54% of the world’s religions, and these are the main religions that don’t allow women to become religious leaders. It clearly is a huge way that religions treat women unequally towards men, and probably one of the biggest problems that we face when it comes to inequality since there is such a big population that follow these religions. It has the most range between the religions which makes it a huge problem but there are other problems within religions that treat women way worse, and treat them as if they aren’t people themselves or their own