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BYU women face social pressure to serve full-time missions

April 30, 2019 12:00 AM
Sister missionaries walk through the halls of the Provo Missionary Training Center on their way to class. Many female students at BYU are impacted by social pressure to serve missions, frequently resulting in feelings of inferiority compared to returned missionary peers. (Dani Jardine)
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Over half of BYU female graduates are RMs

July 17, 2018 12:00 AM
BYU's April 2018 class was the first graduating class with more female graduates who had served missions than hadn't. This comes almost six years after President Monson announced the missionary age change.
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Cultural judgments involving missionaries persist

February 07, 2017 12:00 AM
LDS Church members who returned early, left late or didn't serve can feel judged by family and ward members. (Maddi Driggs illustration)
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Women's college sports adjusts to missionary age change

October 09, 2015 12:00 AM
BYU midfielder Paige Hunt poses for a photo in at South Field. Female college athletes like Paige and her teammate Rachel Boaz interrupted their college careers to serve missions for the LDS Church. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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Hundreds still on waitlist for Missionary Preparation course despite doubling seats available

November 29, 2012 12:00 AM
For prospective missionaries at BYU, plans of enrolling in REL C 130, Missionary Preparation, have not panned out exactly as they hoped.
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Universities with LDS populations weigh in on the effect of the LDS mission age on enrollment

November 26, 2012 12:00 AM
When Heejin Yi heard the news of the lowered mission ages for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, her mind turned not only to the prospect of serving a mission but also to the effect it would have on the college she would attend next year.
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