Article: 5 Reasons There Aren't More Women in Atheism

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Are there really fewer women who are atheists? I don't tend to mix with a lot of them (I work in IT), but every single one I know well is an atheist.

Sources please

This only scratches the surface, so don't read too much into these aggregate statistics. There's more to understanding a statistic than just the number.

Men make up 58 percent of Americans who claim ‘‘no religion,’’ 70 percent of Americans who self-identify as ‘‘atheist,’’ and 75 percent of those who self-identify as ‘‘agnostic’’ (Keysar 2007). Men are also much more likely to become apostates – people who were once religious but are no longer, having rejected their religion at some point (Hadaway and Roof 1988; Altemeyer and Hunsberger 1997). Indeed, a substantial and international body of research makes it clear that on all measures of religiosity, men rate lower than women (Francis 1997; Beit-Hallahmi and Argyle 1997; Miller and Stark 2002; Furseth 2009; Walter and Davie 1998; Hayes 2000; Miller and Hoffman 1995; Batson et al. 1993).

— Phil Zuckerman, "Atheism, Secularity, and Well-Being: How the Findings of Social Science Counter Negative Stereotypes and Assumptions"

You can retrieve a copy of the paper , or find it on the web. There's another paper by Zuckerman on methodological issues related to surveying and describing atheists, but I don't have that to hand at the moment.