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Originally Posted by Sister Alvear
Single woman outnumber single men 7 to 1 on the mission field according to EFMA, IFMA.
I really thought that were were a greater number of men....however may be wrong...
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An impossible to prove speculation on why this might be so:
Here in the West, and especially in the USA, if nowhere else, it is a generally understood fact that when young men graduate from high school, they go to work, college, or the military.
It is very much the same in the church. But also in the church, it is widely held that a single woman should live at home and wait for a man to come around and court her and then marriage.
A guess is that while a lot of young men in the church are going off to college, a career, or the military, a lot of young women, not having the same onus on them to get a career, go to college, or join the armed forces, see the mission field as the most tenable option to get out from underneath the parent's roof, say goodbye to the ponderosa for awhile, and do something for God in the meantime.
AIMers, I think, are more likely to be young women, at least from my experience. I've met many more young women who want to be missionaries, then I've met young men. Not sure why, but maybe the above explains it, at least in part???
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