Well, according to DuckDuckGo Ai, it must be Italy since it has the least women working in Europe, about 47%. Greece is in the 2nd place with 50% of all women working, and the third place, surprisingly enough goes to Romania (I thought they were communist and stuff like that;)
None of these countries is Protestant, btw. It's strange because in the USA it's mainly Evangelicals who support traditional family. And if one counts Turkey as a halfway European country, only a third of their women work (35%). Just so you know:)
Evangelicals are just as 'pozzed' as any other Christian denomination here in the US. They talk a good game, but the reality is different. The churches here cater to the women since that who will mostly show up.
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ReplyDeleteBut it is surprising that evangelicals in the US are mostly traditional, seeing as most evangelical religions don't even think that catholics are "saved." You know what I mean?
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DeleteThere are Evangelicals and Evangelicals if you know what I mean. As for the Catholics, it's very unfortunate that so many Protestants are hostile towards them. Especially considering that traditionally Protestant countries aren't exactly a sterling example of Christian living.
ReplyDeleteI'm an agnostic, but I like dislike both of them. The Abrahamic religions have caused too much stupidity and nonsense and so far removed from anything that Jesus taught or said.
DeleteI so wish here in the US we could deport Jews, Muslims and Ziontards and physically removed the leftist.
You can't have a functioning state without an ideology. And no, making money as a highest value doesn't count. In most of Europe it used to be Christianity. It wasn't perfect but neither is what we have now. In fact, Western society is rapidly coming apart.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to tell about how stats might overlap and affect the outcome of female employment outside the home (like overall unemployment, fertility rates, education, etc.), but I also wondered about what the rural life looks like in these three Catholic/Orthodox countries. Does it increasingly look like typical urban life, only in a rural setting, or does rural life in these countries still embody some of the age old traditions of extended family, small-scale agriculture, and local community? It's been over 20 years since I personally have visited anywhere in rural Europe, so I don't know what ubiquitous internet and globalization have done there, but in the USA, the differences between urban and rural livelihood and culture have shrunk tremendously, and female employment outside the home is high in both environments.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading something a few years ago about the Dutch bible belt, and it vaguely reminded me of the Mennonite communities in North America, with relatively high rates of fertility, social cohesion, religious practice, etc. But the population belonging to such groups is insignificant as a percentage of the overall Dutch population, so the stats disappear unless one breaks them down into locales. What do you think about this, Sanne? Does the Bible Belt still exist in the Netherlands, and do other European countries still have these pocket remnants of Christendom scattered outside the cities?
Janus, I don't know about country life in Romania. They seem to be pretty poor over there, like the poorest country in EU. About Greece I know they used to be pretty conservative. In fact I personally knew someone who had married a Greek guy and he divorced her later because she insisted on working and he wanted her to stay home. Also that they don't count secular marriage as a real marriage (you can divorce) vs if you are married in the church it's for life. But it was 20+ years ago...
ReplyDeleteAs for Italy, at least the North is quite well developed economically. It's just their culture, and it apparently hasn't changed much.
Now about Bible belt in the Netherlands. Yes, it exists. However, it's populated by extreme fundie Calvinists. Young people often run away from these churches. Also, they used to teach it was sinful for a mother to work outside home. Nowadays they often teach it's OK so that you can buy a huge house in a village somewhere and move away from sinful heathens in the big cities. They are all into prosperity Gospel and many believe that material wealth is the sign that you were elected. And very hypocritical, too. I'm not a big fan of these people. The most religious province of the Netherlands is Limburg where more than 80% of the people identify as Catholic. But the churches are mostly empty on Sunday...
Fascinating about the Dutch Calvinists. How sad! The faith turns into an exclusive social club dedicated to prosperity and self-serving convention. I guess I shouldn't be surprised!
DeleteWow! Prosperity gospel nonsense was over there to. I always despised frauds here in the US like Osteen, Copelan, Hagee, Hin and others.
DeleteI do like the community cohesion of the Amish and they are breeding more White Supeuropeans.
I think I should add that not all Dutch Calvinists are like that. But those associated with the "Bible Belt" usually are. While the others are often quite liberal.
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