Sociology Revision Notes – Feminism:
- Religion is source of oppression:
- Pamela Abbot and Claire Wallace:
- Some church leaders have recently claimed that women are incapable of taking leadership and that men biologically take the initiative
- Religious organisations have emerged that tended to legitimate gender inequalities both through their power holders and beliefs they develop in which in variably play a subsidiary role
- It can be argued that because the male has traditionally been seen to be the most powerful and dominant of the sexes religious beliefs has a basis in patriarchy
