Women More Likely to Believe in God and the AfterLife Compared to Men?

Women are much more likely to believe in God and in life after death than men, studies have proof. Sixty per cent of women believe in the afterlife but only 35 per cent of men, said academics. There was also a gender split among atheists. Men were much more likely to be definite that death is the end  as 63 per cent against 36 per cent of women.

 

Study author Professor David Voas said: ‘Belief or disbelief  in God and in life after death do not always go together in new publication in advance of the consecration of the Reverend Libby Lane as the first woman bishop in the CofE in a service at York Minister next week

 

‘Nearly a third of the people who believe in God do not believe in an afterlife.’

 

The findings support growing indications that women are more religious and Christian churches increasingly rely on them as worshippers and ministers.

 

Professor Voas added: ‘Among believers, women are much more likely to be definite than men, and among non-believers, men are much more likely to be definite than women.’ But he said there was ‘no obvious answer’ as to why.

 

In addition,the UCL Institute of Education, London, quizzed 9,000 people as part of the British Cohort Study which is following the lives of 17,000 people born in 1970.

Among the 9,000 who contributed, 60 per cent of women believed in life after death, but only 35 per cent of men.

 

Readers, do you think the study is true, close to truth or False? 

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