A rather long article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/us/a-growing-role-for-mormon-women.html


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In the coming years, these women {missionaries} are expected to fundamentally alter this most American of churches, whose ruling patriarchs not long ago excommunicated feminist scholars and warned women not to hold jobs while raising children. Church leaders have been forced to reassess their views because Mormon women are increasingly supporting households, marrying later and less frequently, and having fewer children. And for the first time, waves of women like Ms. Farr are taking part in the church’s crucial coming-of-age ritual, returning home from their missions with unprecedented scriptural fluency, new confidence and new ideas about themselves.
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That's an excellent article. The reporters are well informed about Mormonism. They even understand the subtle nuances that would escape most nevermos.

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