What is the meaning of fraternity and sorority?

A fraternity or sorority is a brotherhood or sisterhood formed around common goals and aspirations. The members that form a fraternity or sorority share their efforts, friendship, and knowledge. Together they learn, grow, and make the fraternity or sorority, commonly called a Greek organization, stronger.

What is the purpose of a sorority?

A sorority is an organization on a college campus whose purpose is to foster friendship and community, among other things. Women join a sorority, and men join a fraternity. There are chapters of Greek life spread around universities in both the U.S. and Canada.

What’s the difference between a fraternity and a sorority?

So what are the differences between a fraternity and a sorority? For starters, the main difference would be its members. Fraternity has male members and sorority has female members. That’s about the main and only difference.

What do the sororities mean?

: a club of women specifically : a women’s student organization formed chiefly for social purposes and having a name consisting of Greek letters.

Why should I not join a sorority?

1. Only So Much Time in the Day. If you join a sorority say goodbye to a social life, or at least any social life outside of the sorority. With all the volunteer work, meetings, parties and other shenanigans sororities are involved with, there really isn’t any time to expose yourself to things outside of Greek life.

What is a women’s frat?

The female equivalent of a fraternity, in the sense of ‘a male student society in a university’, is a sorority.

Why is Greek life bad?

Greek life has been infamous with being associated with sexual assault. The Guardian reports that sorority women are 74% more likely to be assaulted than unaffiliated students, and men who join fraternities are three times more likely to violate a woman. This makes sense since fraternities typically host social events.