Overall, women are more likely than men to be affiliated with a religious organization; women also pray more and are more inclined to say religion is "very important" in their lives, indicated the Pew findings collected in 84 countries. The ultimate analysis compared men and women in several different aspects of religious commitment.

The report found that in some countries and faiths, men are more religious than women, at least by some measures. For example, among Muslims and Orthodox Jews, men are more likely than women to attend worship services at least weekly, the new study found.

The largest gender gap is in daily prayer. Averaging results across the 84 countries, more women than men say they pray daily, by an average difference of 8 percentage points. Specifically, more women than men say they pray daily in 43 of the 84 countries. Men say they pray more in one country (Israel), and in 40 of the 84 countries there is no significant difference between men and women in daily prayer habits.

Religiousness also can be measured by asking people how important religion is to them personally. In more than half of the 84 countries surveyed (46), roughly equal shares of men and women say that religion is "very important" to them. However, in 36 other countries, more women than men say religion is important in their lives—and usually by wide margins. As a result, across all 84 countries, women surpass men in this aspect of religious commitment by an average of 5 percentage points (65 percent vs. 60 percent).

Only in Mozambique and Israel do men say that religion is very important to them more often than women do. The biggest exception to the general pattern of women being more religious than men occurs in...

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