Two researchers, Dr. Traci Sitzmann (University of Colorado Denver Business School) and Dr. Elizabeth Campbell (University of Minnesota), have just published a paper in the Academy of Management Journal digging into that question, and they found that the more religious a place is, the greater its gender wage gap.
It may not have always been that way, but most religions seem to oppress women, Mary Magdaline got mis represented even from a lot of Christians’ point of view: [theosophical.org]
All these malignant fabrications about good, normal women don’t help.