Americans are becoming less religious. None more than this group

Generation Z women, especially those aged 18 to 24 , are less likely than young men to identify with a faith or to believe in a higher power.

Pew Center: The shift is occurring primarily among Protestants , 60% of whom identify as evangelical.

Experts say multiple factors are driving the trend.

Generation Z women are far more concerned than previous generations with inequality and scornful of institutions adhering to patriarchal hierarchies including more conservative churches.

#MeToo movement and # ChurchToo have “empowered young women to say, I don't need to put up with this anymore” Study Center on American Life: Young women are nearly three times as likely than Baby Boomer women to identify as such.

Mojica Rodriguez was raised in purity culture and married to a man she met seven months earlier .

Her father had no interest in her theological views, she said, because of her gender.

She was still in the program in 2013 when she decided to divorce herself from her husband and her church.

Her mother instructed her to return to her husband, with no questions about why she had left.