Question:
What is the context of “let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law” (1 Corinthians 14:34), and does it apply today?

Answer:
This verse has to do with assembly meetings when “the whole church be come together into one place” (verse 23), and yes, this does apply today for the Lord desires us to show the truth of the church by gathering unto Him (Matthew 18:17-20).

Woman is not in a lower position but in assembly meetings God’s order is to use men, not women to speak publicly. In 1 Timothy, where we are given instruction on how to behave ourselves in the assembly (1 Timothy 3:15), we are told that because of man’s place in creation and because of the fall the woman is not to “teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression” (1 Timothy 2:12-14).