Mormonism and gender issues/Women/Role in the Church

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Mormonism and women's issues—Role in the Church


The role of women in the Church


Mormonism, women and the priesthood

Summary: Why do women not exercise priesthood authority in the Church?

Mormon cultural issues related to women

The role of those who are not married or have children in Mormonism

Summary: Some people claim that the Church devalues those who are not married and those who are childless.

Are Mormon women taught to be subservient to men?

Summary: In an unpublished paper “Mormon Women, Prozac, and Therapy," by Kent Ponder (copyrighted 2003, readily available on the Internet), the idea is put forward that women in the LDS church are taught to be “subservient” to men and are considered “eternally unalterable second-class.” Among some of its more colorful statements are the claims that women are expected to be “gratefully subservient to Mormon males” and that women must “not aspire…to independent thought.”

Women praying in church

Summary: Can women open Church meetings with prayer?


Videos

The Place of Mormon Women: Perceptions, Prozac, Polygamy, Priesthood, Patriarchy, and Peace, Andrea Radke, 2004 FAIR Conference

The Lives of Mormon Women, Claudia Bushman, 2006 FAIR Conference