Women

• "Church Asks Activist Group to Reconsider Plans to Protest at General Conference", 17 March 2014 (Original link no longer viable. See via wayback machine.)

Includes an official letter from some women in the Church's PR department responding to plans by the organization, Ordain Women, to demonstrate for female ordination at the Church’s worldwide general conference.

• The Family: A Proclamation to the World

Many important principles that have bearing on womanhood.

• Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society, Ch. 8, Blessings of the Priesthood for All: An Inseparable Connection with the Priesthood

Under the subtitle, Gifts of the Spirit, it says:

"Because Latter-day Saint women have received the gift of the Holy Ghost, they can seek and be blessed by spiritual gifts such as 'the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.' Throughout the history of the Church, Latter-day Saint women have received gifts of the Spirit and used them to bless their families and others."

A story is also told of how Amanda Barnes Smith exercised the gift of healing.

• Danielle B. Wagner, "Mormon Women Giving Blessings: Everything You Need to Know", LDS Living

Not quite everything you need to know.

• Rachel Porter, "Why ARE women's breasts getting bigger? The answers may disturb you...", Daily Mail, 26 Jan 2011

An excellent article that does a good job covering many reasonable reasons why modern women in England have larger breast sizes, on average, than they did in the 50's.

• Taryn Hillin, "Are breasts in America really getting bigger?", Splinter News, 3/04/15 11:46am

Similar to the previous article, except referring to the phenomenon of increasing breast sizes in America.

• Nigel Barber Ph.D., "Why modern women behave more like men", Psychology Today, 24 Ag 2009

Anxiety (stress) leads to testosterone production in women, which leads to more masculine behaviors and body shapes.

• Pelin Gul, Tom R. Kupfer, Pelin Gul, "Benevolent Sexism and Mate Preferences: Why Do Women Prefer Benevolent Men Despite Recognizing That They Can Be Undermining?", Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29 Jun 2018

• Jacqueline Howard, "Having a working mom has benefits for kids later in life, study says", KSL, 18 Jul 2018

The title seems misleading. The outcomes reported seem altogether neutral.

The main results is:

Happiness: No statistically significant difference

And the pattern is more likely to be perpetuated by the children. (ie. girls more career-focused, and boys more home-focused than children of parents acting out traditional roles)

• "Women gain happiness from seeing their partner upset - because it 'shows their relationship is strong'", Daily Mail, 6 Mar 2012

An interesting study. This seems to find something that John Gottman also described, but it takes a different perspective on it. I'm not yet sure what I think about this observation.

• Alexander Grace, "The Studies That PROVE Men Aren't To Blame", YouTube, 25 Jun 2019
  • Maner, J. K., & McNulty, J. K. (2013). Attunement to the fertility status of same-sex rivals: Women's testosterone responses to olfactory ovulation cues. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34(6), 412–418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2013.07.005

  When a woman smells another woman who is highly fertile (a high point in her cycle), her testosterone spikes.

  • Vaillancourt, T. and Aanchal Sharma. “Intolerance of sexy peers: intrasexual competition among women.” Aggressive behavior 37 6 (2011): 569-77 .

  Study found women are mean and distance themselves from women who dress provocatively.

  • Vrangalova, Zhana & Bukberg, Rachel & Rieger, Gerulf. (2014). Birds of a feather? Not when it comes to sexual permissiveness. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 31. 93-113. 10.1177/0265407513487638.

  Even sexually permissive women don't want to associate with sexually permissive women.

Cross-References

• Feminism
• Gender
• Marriage
• Men
• Relief Society
• Sex