feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 29, 2019 · Last modified June 28, 2019
I gave a stake Relief Society fireside here (mostly Mormon community of a church university) once, about Mormon women’s activities in the 19th century, wheat, silk production, suffrage activism, owning and running their own...
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 21, 2019 · Last modified June 17, 2019
I’ve taught Gospel Doctrine in three different wards for a combined 10 years, and I could never get a woman to sub for me. I asked plenty. They always said “Oh, I could never...
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 19, 2019 · Last modified June 10, 2019
As ward music chairman, I submitted a name for choir director. It took them ten months (ten months!) to call her, and the first counselor was really lukewarm about my pick. I told him...
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 17, 2019 · Last modified June 10, 2019
When I talked about wearing pants to church, a man I know insisted women HAD to wear skirts. When I asked where that rule was, he recited that verse in D&C about how we...
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 16, 2019 · Last modified June 10, 2019
I was 14 or 15 when I was in my Bishop’s office for a temple recommend interview for baptisms for the dead. During this interview, my Bishop told me that I could not participate...
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 15, 2019 · Last modified June 9, 2019
When I was 21 I wanted to serve a mission. I had a timeline for when I was hoping to get a mission call because my parents lived in Russia at the time but...
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 13, 2019 · Last modified June 7, 2019
The general sidelining of Heavenly Mother bothers me, but specifically I was taught at girls’ camp by one of the Young Women leaders that we don’t talk about Heavenly Mother because Heavenly Father is...
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 12, 2019 · Last modified June 7, 2019
I held a calling in a stake capacity several years ago. My stewardship was minimal, but I was able to observe the workings of the authority hierarchy in the stake. I was stunned and...
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