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by Brandi Lee. : Summary on: What Revolution? How Feminism Changed Religious Colleges While They Weren’t Looking From God on the Quad. Make Room for the Women. Currently women make up more than 62% of enrollment at Catholic schools and 59% at other religious schools

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  1. by Brandi Lee : Summary on:What Revolution?How Feminism Changed Religious Colleges While They Weren’t Looking From God on the Quad

  2. Make Room for the Women • Currently women make up more than 62% of enrollment at Catholic schools and 59% at other religious schools • WHY the upward trend of women attending religious colleges? • Sign of feminist revolution or protection of our daughters?

  3. Opposing Views on Religious Colleges • Feminist Religious colleges reinforce traditional roles of subordination for women • Sociologist Davison Hunter Religious colleges speed up secularization process • Author Religious colleges do not shelter, help women consider their futures while keeping with religious beliefs

  4. Possible Explanations • Women tend to be more spiritual than men • Parents want to protect daughters from secular world • Women embracing need to balance career and family • May not have official responsibility to study • Current women do not have a political agenda

  5. What Do the Stats Say? • Women from religious schools are planning careers like those of their secular counterparts • Data from “The American Freshman” report future plans of women at religious colleges vs. secular colleges hardly differ • Differences among generations based on family life and gender roles

  6. Author Believes Women Attending Religious Colleges: • Personal destiny directed by God, not husbands/fathers • Reach back to foundation of their faith for guidance/justification of choices • Uphold theological/cultural tenets of their religions • Are not sheltered from opportunities available to them

  7. Reference Page • Riley, N.S. God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation are Changing America. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005.

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