Recent studies have shown that women are increasingly depressed and miserable. Often, though, instead of examining and addressing the potential causes of this epidemic of loneliness, they keep making choices that send them barreling toward further sadness and isolation.

With the promise of fulfillment and empowerment, female presence in corporate America has drastically increased over the last several decades. Women are pushing off marriage to pursue endless degrees, and if they decide to bring children into the picture, the predominant choice of today’s mothers is to spend their time in the office over raising the children who most need them.

The option of paying for childcare and leaning into their careers has modern women essentially leading their lives in the same way that their male counterparts have been historically encouraged to do, leaving society with a severe shortage of actual femininity, ironically at the hands of feminism.

Women seem to recognize that they have become increasingly dissatisfied with life, and one would think that this realization would lead to self-reflection and course correction — to improve the trajectory of, in this case, the happiness they desire but are not finding. Yet it seems as though the memo has not only not been received, but it is also being burned faster than a bra during a 1960s feminist protest. Onward they march amid the self-love and the man-shaming and the false promise of eventual happiness.

Women are repeatedly told by the mainstream media, leftist politicians, and heavily biased learning institutions that focusing on oneself alone brings true joy and that abortion access and more abortion access are the only issues worth considering. They absorb the respective slogans and chants with enthusiasm while ignoring the connection between those who are encouraging these ideas and the never-ending frustration that they cannot seem to escape.

Recently, a study conducted by the Survey Center on American Life revealed that women are now leaving church institutions in unprecedented numbers, believing that — as with traditional homes, marriages, and families — these are yet more male-dominated spaces meant to keep women submissive and controlled.

As Not the Bee’s John Knox observes, “Women are so concerned with equality, especially those who were raised up in today’s radical feminist milieu, that they assume any traditional institution is not fair to women.”

Though it used to be that the poisonous attitudes of feminism were limited to a minority of females, the ideas seem to be spreading more rapidly than ever, further fueling the divide between men and women, as men lean back into tradition.

Knox continues, “It is civilizational suicide and repudiation of God’s command to be fruitful and multiply.”

This development in today’s political and cultural climate, though disheartening, is not surprising. The Left has been relentless in telling women that traditional views have disempowered and enslaved them to the home, and that their only hope of living a truly unshackled life is to shed anything that tethers them to anyone other than themselves. This includes but is not limited to their unborn children and the husband they may or may not want to have in the future.

Like all other feminist ideas that have led women to this miserable new place, these beliefs, too, heavily rely on a misinterpretation of words and false narratives. The world defines “equality” as sameness and “equity” as dismantling differences. Anything that highlights our different masculine and feminine qualities and capabilities must be eradicated and corrected by woke feminists.

There is also a false analysis of the fundamental respect and reverence that most organized Christian religions carry for both men and women, as the roles designated to each are meant to offer a space for us to achieve optimal connection with God and bring others to do the same.

Like the worldly notion that success and validation for women are reflected in their position in the workplace or the educational degrees that they’ve earned, the mostly male leadership of most Christian religions is interpreted by the Left as patriarchal domination, with women regarded as inferior.

Sympathetic to the concern that women have toward their significance within the congregation, The Washington Stand quoted the sentiments of Pastor Burk Parsons of St. Andrews Chapel: “If young women believe the lies of the culture, they will think that churches are not for them. And the culture has done a good job of peddling that message.”

Of course, the agenda of the feminist movement to separate women from the church is not to help, elevate, or empower women. It is instead to separate them from yet one more thing that provides them true strength, stability, and conviction.

Christian organizations respect the distinct and powerful qualities that men and women possess, and they know that true equality for both sexes derives from exercising our God-given gifts within a righteous household, which leads to the greatest joy and fulfillment for both.