Today’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; we must do better than this.
I want to hear from female church leaders. Even more, I desperately want my daughters and my son to hear from female church leaders. I want them to learn about female church leaders the way we learn about them in Primary. I want them to sing Primary songs that include female church leaders–the way we do about the men. I want them to be able to look forward to attending Sunday School classes when the entire year’s curriculum would focus on teachings and scriptural/doctrinal interpretations and revelations from female church leaders–as we currently do with the men. I want them to be able to go to Sunday School and YW/YM lessons and hear quotes from female church leaders–a lot rather than just the occasional quote from/by/about Eliza R. Snow.
I want them to know that in their church–in Mormonism–women’s voices and experiences matter as much as men’s.
That is currently not the case in Mormonism.
