Why would women want to join a Religion?

[Losty]

Most people are indoctrinated as young children. I don't remember anyone ever asking me if I wanted to be religious.

True. But there is no gender difference when it comes to intelligence.

Why didn't more women grow up and say: "Hey, wait a minute, this is bullshit."

That also seems obvi to me. Religion is more oppressive to women than it is to men. Many religious people instill a very strong sense of guilt in their followers. Everyone should feel guilty just for being born, but women have the extra guilt of being born female. I distinctly recall a day when I was maybe 7 or 8 and our pastor did an entire sermon on how women are naturally manipulative and that's why god commands men to be the leaders of the family and keep their women under their wing. It's to protect them from themselves. To save them from their own sinful nature, and as a father would use discipline to turn his daughter back to god so shall it be between a man and his wife. I will never forget that sermon so long as I live.