The Future Reflection Paper

The Future Discussion

My Reaction: When taking this class, I was often surprised at the way women were treated, simply because they were inferior to men in many aspects of the religion. I have never have taken a class that examined how the disparities a women experiences. There was also a lot of stereotypes I had about religions that were proven to be misconceptions. I was overall intrigued to learning about other religions besides Christianity.

My Analysis:

Myself- I found it very difficult to find understand the matter in this class at first. Not only was I very uneducated about my own religion, I had to learn about others. It took a lot of time for me to understand a religion in itself, then learn how women are affected. The first section was on Indigenous

A religion that we studied that proved that change is occurring is the Islamic religions. While all religions are far away from being egalitarian. “There has been a steady rise in overall literacy rates in Egypt, Yemen, and Pakistan are due largely to female education” (Anderson, 242). I think women in religions are still behind for the times that we live in. As our societies change, and become more egalitarian there is the lack in religions. This is due to the fact that religions have been around for thousands of years, and have rarely changed. Now is the time for more to support women in the fight to allow women in higher power. The task for the future, …., is to help the tradition catch up with these realities” (Anderson, 242). While many countries still hinder the progress of women, there are many that have created change. Personally women in religions of the United States, are still disparities that occur. We have made progress electing women into our judicial systems. I believe that if this being done, they are leading by examples. This may have an input in eliminating misconceptions about women, and lead to a better