 Women began to drop out of the WKKK and form other organizations of their own due to problems within the Klan, competing leadership, and financial corruption.Women were also concerned about the male Klan's increasing participation in acts of violence, which caused them to leave the Klan.Conflict arose during the modern wave regarding gender equity, because the Klan adheres to rules of "moral conservatism", such as its disbelief in divorce and its insistence that male authority should exist in politics as well as in the home.