Were women chosen for the work as well? Alma 16:15

Were women chosen for the work as well? Alma 16:15

Alma and Amulek "and also many more" preached and established the church in all the land of the Nephites.

My question was whether or not the "many more" included women. 

Answer:

Back just one verse, we read: 

And as many as would hear their words, unto them they did impart the word of God, without any ^arespect of persons, continually.

I am certain that God does not base his love off of our gender. I am certain that he doesn't withhold truth based on merely whether or not we are men or women; there must be reasons why things are the way they are. It is one reason why the recent announcement to allow women to be official witnesses at baptisms and sealings was a little bit frustrating to me; it feels like, "Well... so if we're allowed to do this now, why weren't we allowed to do this before?" I can accept, though, that reserving this responsibility for male priesthood holders in the past might have been the way earlier saints understood and tried to reverence the importance and significance of the priesthood.

The prophet specifically asked all the women in the church to study everything that we can about the priesthood, so in the next six months, that's what I'm going to do.

I am certain that women are and were in the past important contributors to God's work on the earth. It seems like such an obvious thing to say. Without women, well - there wouldn't be a human family. Women are also the moral compass of society - and this belief of mine is actually based off secular empirical data as well as recent statements by President Nelson at conference.

The 19th century language of the Book of Mormon is not my favorite. It tends to wipe out an entire half of the human population with words like "men" and "man" instead of using "men and women" or "humankind" or even "mankind." I am fairly certain that, reluctant as we may be to own it or face it, our society at large and also our inner latter-day saint community, are probably far, far more sexist than we would like to admit. Words really do matter.

But the meaning matters more.

Answer:
No doubt women were taught and also called to participate in some way in the work of God on the earth at that time, just as they are today.