Holy texts have played a pivotal role in justifying hegemonizing and oppressing women for ages. In the social context, women have remained second-class citizens. And that’s context religions have shaped.

“Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths, creating an environment in which violations against women are justified,” former US President Jimmy Carter noted in 2010 to the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Australia.

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“The belief that women are inferior human beings in the eyes of God,” Carter continued, “gives excuses to the brutal husband who beats his wife, the soldier who rapes a woman, the employer who has a lower pay scale for women employees, or parents who decide to abort a female embryo.”