Inequality is the disparity of distribution or opportunity and can be examined through many positions from a sociologist perspective. This article will examine the bases of gender inequality within marriage across three different religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Looking at the basics of gender inequality, we can see that it is a learned behavior from childhood developmental stages. According to Piaget's stages of cognitive development, during the preoperative period (2 to 7 years) and during the intuitive phase (4 to 7 years), "a child's speech becomes more social... has an intuitive understanding of logical concepts" . Furthermore, “the concepts formed are crude and irreversible,” which makes the child extremely sensitive to social perceptions put in place by parents who, in turn, are governed by their perceptions based on their particular faith. Part of raising a child involves what I call “social programming” which adheres to Piaget’s chart of developmental stages. This social programming occurs when parents transmit their behaviors to their children during the intuitive phase. For example, something as simple as religion can be the product of social programming. By consistently taking a child to a specific church, they will come to identify as part of that particular religion. Within this religion, they will learn what their parents were taught and this is how they should behave based on their gender. Without going into detail about the three religions that will be discussed, we can identify some of the obvious commonalities between them. Each religion considers the male as the dominant of the two genders and the female as the inferior being of course. Additionally, they all have established roles that each gender is responsible for fulfilling. In each of them, the male is placed in the superior role. These roles are especially true within a marriage. What is marriage? According to Webster's Dictionary, marriage is "the state of being united with a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law." This can also apply to people of the same sex, but for the purposes of this article it will be looked at from a heterosexual perspective. In a heterosexual marriage, you will encounter conflict between the husband and wife and this is where religion is believed to play a role. help.