Posted by:
eddie
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Date: September 19, 2010 11:42AM
Not allowing women to hold priesthood leadership positions is likely hurting the bottom line for Mormonism. Because the LDS church is run like a corporation with a "board of directors"/the apostles who are virtually all businessmen and lawyers, the following findings are likely very relevant.
Many studies show that companies with more women on their boards do better financially than those with less. A recent McKinsey survey determined that, of companies who’d made efforts to empower women in emerging markets, 34 percent reported increased profits...
Then there is the issue of giving and working to build the community:
In developing countries, the social effects of female economic empowerment are particularly evident, since women reinvest 90 percent of their income into community and family, compared with 30 to 40 percent reinvested by men.
If the brethren encouraged the men and women to delay starting families and gain as much education as possible the birth rate would predictably drop. However the birth rate within Mormonism is in decline anyway and may reach near parity with the surrounding populations regardless. Losing educated women to "apostasy" is also a very real possibility but again not making a change to encourage education may just delay, rather than avert, the inevitable. Not encouraging education could actually cause more problems in the long run by offending women (and men) with Mormonism's archaic, damaging misogynistic stance.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/06/women-will-rule-the-world.html