More atheist men than women?

[rexbeccarox]

It's the Stockholm Syndrome Vic mentioned.

Ok, but isn't this experienced by the minority of people in abusive situations? It seems most of them would still want to leave.  

If a religion was abusing women and treating them like prisoners, while treating men like kings, it seems like more men would want to stay than women. Sure, I guess some women would develop SS, but it doesn't seem like it would be enough of them to make so many more women want to stay than men.

Well, obviously we can't find out rates of Stockholm Syndrome within religious groups... especially if the victims aren't leaving. It's the only thing I can think to attribute to women for staying in oppressive situations, much like the rate of women who stay with or go back to abusive spouses.

I also think Stockholm Syndrome is probably an imperfect way of describing it, since these aren't black-and-white hostage/ kidnapping situations, but I don't think we have a term for when it's used in religious situations, so describing it like SS gets the point across.