Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… disproportionate numbers of women and girls, as opposed to men and boys, who were being confirmed: 3 361 to 982 in that … is needed on this - that the self-improvers were mostly men, while, because of gender-specific life-crises, women … for young girls avoiding marriage (perhaps to rich old men, or pagans, or polygynists) for-cast-off wives; or for …