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| Foreign Missionary Movement | Women's missionary enterprise was one of the earliest and largest social reform movements in the United States. The movement attracted evangelical women spurred by religious faith to promote Christianity at home and... Women's missionary enterprise was one of the earliest and largest social reform movements in the United States. The movement attracted evangelical women spurred by religious faith to promote Christianity at home and abroad. American laywomen were active participants in Protestant and Catholic missionary efforts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Women's participation began in domestic fundraising for male-dominated foreign missions, but by the second half of the nineteenth century, laywomen began to organize separate women's boards and to set their own agendas for mission activity. By 1911 some two million women were members in groups that were part of the women's missionary movement. Typically sent abroad as teachers or ministers' wives, women carved out for themselves increasingly important roles in foreign missions. According to the scholar Jane Hunter, at the peak of mission activity women comprised two-thirds of all missionaries working abroad. Show more Show less | 1830 | 2 |
