Were There Women at Qumran?

The article focuses on women and their position in the Jewish movement as described in the Qumran-Essene scrolls. It mentions that the Jewish historian Josephus, mentions another order of Essenes who married for the purpose of procreation and whose communities, therefore, included women and children. It also mentions that began to acknowledge that the majority of the Qumran sectarian scrolls assumed the presence of women and children in the sectarian community.