Listen 31 min MORE Four Anglican nuns from the Community of the Sisters of the Church (United Kingdom Province) Photo by Timothy Titus/Wikicommons.
America’s strong ties to the church have influenced and defined gender roles, many of which remain embedded in our culture today. The teachings of the church have provided the constructs of what a man should do and what a woman should not. Yet for the most part women have been the ones who supported the church financially, cleaned the sanctuary, brought their children and helped to foster a new generation of congregants. Without the women in the pews, no religious institution in America would exist