Women in Amish society

It is practiced almost exclusively in the United States and Canada with large settlements in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.

It is not uncommon for Amish women to run their own businesses or go further in their education as girls than their male peers might.

[2] Amish women are expected to wear long cape dresses made out of plain fabric; it is not uncommon for a group of Amish women to buy large bulk of a certain color of fabric and make themselves identical dresses to wear.

Women are also expected to wear headcoverings (which are in the form of a kapp) that are meant to express the woman's submission to God in obedience to the biblical ordinance delineated in 1 Corinthians 11:4–10; while adult women in traditional Amish society are expected to wear kapps that cover their head fully with the strings of the kapps neatly tied, it is not necessarily expected for young teenage girls whose headcoverings may more closely resemble the coverings that Mennonite women use rather than a traditional Amish woman's.

Young people who choose to be baptized into a certain Amish affiliation (typically the one they grew up in) are expected to marry inside this group.