Philobiblon

Interesting example of the way the problem is with all religions, not just one of them: according to a piece on Women’s eNews, Coptic women in Egypt are fleeing to Islam, in the embrace of which they can find more freedom than in Christianity:

“A key reason for the so-called ‘kidnappings’ is that Coptic women have no right to divorce,” said Nahed Abul Komsan, head of the Cairo-based Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights, which is the leading women’s rights group in the country.
“This means that if their parents tell them they are going to marry their cousin, they have to submit to this and have no choice . . . So they turn to Islam, not because of a spiritual belief in the religion but because it gives them more of an opportunity to choose their life’s path,” she said.