USA, February 28, 2009: In honor of March as Women’s History Month, the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life took a look back at its U.S. Religious Landscape Survey to see what it shows about differences in religiosity between men and women. Not surprisingly, given all of what we know about who shows up at worship in most faith groups, the data show that women are more religious than men by a number of measures:
66 percent of women “pray at least once a day”–almost 35 percent higher than the figure for men (49 percent).
44 percent of women “attend worship services at least once a week”– over 29 percent higher than the figure for men (34 percent)
63 percent of women say “religion is very important in their lives”– nearly 29 percent higher than the figure for men (49 percent).
77 percent of women have “absolutely certain belief in God or a universal spirit”– over 18 percent higher than the figure for men (65 percent).
86 percent of women are “affiliated with a religion”– almost 9 percent higher than the figure for men (79 percent).
58 percent of women have “absolutely certain belief in a personal God”– over 5 percent higher than the figure for men (55 percent).