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Equality Archive
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Equality is not a Feeling, 27.0
Posted on June 4, 2014 | 24 CommentsNumerous scholars (e.g., here, here, here, here, etc.) have studied the images included in U.S. and world history textbooks as well as science textbooks and have argued that the representation (or lack of representation) of women and of non-white people therein sends a powerful message […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 26.0
Posted on May 28, 2014 | 7 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post focuses on the gender of the CES Devotional speakers over the last 14 years. Seventy people total have spoken at these broadcasts: 4-6 per year. Some years, no woman has spoken to this audience–young adult church […] -
Cost of Scouting (Equality is not a Feeling, 25.0)
Posted on May 21, 2014 | 80 CommentsToday’s guest post is by Nate Curtis, an endowed member with a current temple recommend. He is currently serving as the stake cub master in Phoenix, Arizona. Nate is an Eagle Scout and a forensic economist. In the past, he has served in bishoprics, as […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 24.0
Posted on May 14, 2014 | 12 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post focuses on seminary teachers and supervisors. This data comes from my local ward/stake (Nacogdoches, TX). Your mileage may vary (although, I suspect, not very much). First, a look at the unpaid seminary teachers in our stake. […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 23.0
Posted on April 2, 2014 | 7 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post illustrates the gender of the people involved in church discipline processes. For the uninitiated, there are two levels of church discipline processes: one that occurs at the ward level and another that occurs at the stake […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 22.0
Posted on March 26, 2014 | 3 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post focuses on the gender of the Commissioner of Education for the entire Church Educational System, which serves approximately 700,000 students in 146 countries in a wide range of elementary, secondary, and post-secondary institutions, as well as the church […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 21.0
Posted on March 19, 2014 | 32 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post is a continuation of last week’s, which showed gender breakdown of the Church Board of Education. The Boards of Trustees of BYU-Provo, BYU-Idaho, BYU-Hawaii, and LDS Business College are the same as the Church Board of Education, […] -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 20.0
Posted on March 12, 2014 | 1 CommentToday’s installment in the series illustrates the gender of the members of the Church Board of Education. From what I was able to dig up from a wikipedia entry and miscellaneous other webpages from previous boards, it looks like the board is comprised of […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 19.0
Posted on March 5, 2014 | 6 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post comes to us from a Mormon mother of 11 children who compiled this list after seeing her sons get much more public recognition in church meetings than her daughters. Some of this recognition (or lack of recognition) is […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 18.0
Posted on February 26, 2014 | 4 CommentsToday’s guest post is a continuation of Equality is not a Feeling 16.0 and Equality is not a Feeling 17.0, by Laura C.–both of which depicted gender references in our LDS hymnal. Today’s post is the last in the hymnal series and shows the […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 17.0
Posted on February 19, 2014 | 1 CommentToday’s guest post is a continuation of Equality is not a Feeling 16.0, by Laura C., and depicts references to deity (by verse) in our LDS hymnal. [For more posts in this series, click here to see the archive.] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 16.0
Posted on February 12, 2014 | 8 CommentsThe next three Equality is not a Feeling posts come to us from Laura C., who is a veteran around here. Laura did a gender study of our hymnal. Here’s how she did it: I broke the hymns down two ways: By verse […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 15.0
Posted on February 5, 2014 | 6 CommentsToday’s post continues the same thought from last week’s by depicting the number of General Conference speakers by sex, from 1984 through 2013. ; ; How do I explain this to my daughters–or to my son–when they ask for an explanation (which they already […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 14.0
Posted on January 29, 2014 | 10 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post depicts the number of General Conference speakers, by sex, from 1984-2013. I said it last week, but I’ll say it again because it bears repeating: this is not equality. We can do better than this; […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 13.0
Posted on January 22, 2014 | 9 CommentsToday’s post is kind of cheating, since it’s just a new visual depiction of data from the Equality is not a Feeling, 3.0 post, but this image (submitted by a Facebook friend) is so powerful, it deserves its own post. Here is the male-female […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 12.0
Posted on January 15, 2014 | 6 CommentsThe Equality is not a Feeling, 10.0 post teased out some data about the doctrinal density of General Conference talks given by male versus female church leaders. Today’s post is an extension of that post. Using the metric described in Equality is not […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 11.0
Posted on January 8, 2014 | 14 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post takes a quick look at the 2014 Primary Sharing Time outline. I printed out the outline and did a count of the following issues that are relevant to this series, which focuses on gender inequality in the […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 10.0
Posted on December 11, 2013 | 9 CommentsEquality is not a Feeling 2.0 depicted the number of minutes of General Conference addresses delivered by men as compared to those delivered by woman. As guest writer Anderson points out, the chart on Equality is not a Feeling 2.0 conceals a greater inequity: […] -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 9.0
Posted on December 4, 2013 | 21 CommentsToday’s illustration depicts the official duties of Mormon young men and women, ages 12-18. Each group has duties and responsibilities specific to their class that are not listed here. This chart depicts the official duties and responsibilities that each group has that are […] -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 8.0
Posted on November 27, 2013 | 25 CommentsThis week’s Equality is not a Feeling post illustrates the number of males and females who have access to the Church Handbook of Instruction, Volume 1. This is based on data from the following post by April on Exponent II: The Sealed Book. […] -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 7.0
Posted on November 20, 2013 | 4 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post is a depiction of the number of General Conference speakers, by gender, from 1984-2013. Four women spoke in April 1984, when I was 11. Not surprisingly, I don’t remember that at all (again, I was 11). […] -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 6.0
Posted on November 13, 2013 | 38 CommentsThis week’s “Equality is not a Feeling” post is an illustration of the number of times the phrase “Heavenly X” or “X in Heaven” has appeared in any conference address since 1851 according to corpus.byu.edu. You’ll notice the difference between X=”Father” and X=”Mother” is 9,847 […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 5.0
Posted on November 6, 2013 | 29 Comments–From Laura C. This week’s “Equality is not a Feeling” post is an illustration of the people needed–according to the Church Handbook of Instructions (Volume 1, Section 9)–in order to establish official church units (e.g., branches, wards, stakes). So, I know this might not really […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 4.0
Posted on October 30, 2013 | 12 CommentsAnother illustration of a way to measure (in)equality in the Mormon church (for other measurements, see here, here, and here). Today we’re looking at male-female faculty representation in higher education in general (degree-granting institutions, in the U.S.) versus male-female faculty representation at BYU. […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 3.0
Posted on October 23, 2013 | 10 CommentsHere’s another installment in my series, Equality is not a Feeling–in which I am trying to illustrate, visually, numerous ways in which (in)equality in the Mormon church can be measured. This one is similar to the first one (Equality is not a Feeling 1.0), […] -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 2.0
Posted on October 19, 2013 | 34 CommentsI have “equality” on the brain these days. What does it mean? What does it look like? How do you know when you have it and, more importantly, how do you know when you don’t? As Kate Kelly mentioned a couple weeks […] -
Equality is not a Feeling
Posted on October 16, 2013 | 40 CommentsTwo-part proclamation from me: 1. I don’t know what I think about God these days, but this much I know: God is not the author of inequality. I don’t care who claims otherwise. I’m not buying what you’re selling. 2. […]