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Mormon church has taken 'baby steps' toward greater gender equity, but LDS feminists say it's time
Mormon church has taken ‘baby steps’ toward greater gender equity, but LDS feminists say it’s time to lengthen that strideAs Russell M. Nelson ascended to the top of the LDS Church and its all-male hierarchy, the question came: What about women?
“We love ’em,” Nelson quipped at the Jan. 16 news conference announcing his presidency of the nearly 16 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The 93-year-old leader (as well as his two counselors in the faith’s governing First Presidency) praised the mothers and daughters in their lives who had produced missionary sons and bishops and had served as “influencers” to the men.
The trio made no mention of single women in the global faith, presidents of the all-female LDS Relief Society, or the armies of women who work at every level of Mormon congregational life no matter their marital status. Nor did the three speak of recent strides by the church toward gender equity or even hint at the word “feminist.”
Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2018/02/22/where-mormon-church-is-on-women-tk/