Pew Research Center's short read documents the effect of the Church's October 2012 lowering of the minimum missionary age for women from twenty one to nineteen, reporting that the number of women serving full time missions nearly tripled in the years that followed as women neared parity with the number of men serving.
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A nonpartisan research organization, tier 2, matching the reliability tier already carried by its other entries on the map, used here for independent demographic assessment of the 2012 missionary age change's effect on the number of women serving, corroborating the Church's own account above. NotesUsed for the demographic effect of the 2012 age change, in particular the near tripling of women serving full time missions.
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PublisherPew Research Center
URLhttps://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/03/10/is-the-mormon-church-expanding-the-role-of-women/
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