equality Archive

  • Cost of Scouting (Equality is not a Feeling, 25.0)

    Posted on May 21, 2014 | 80 Comments
    Today’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 […]

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  • Equality is Not a Feeling, 20.0

    Posted on March 12, 2014 | 1 Comment
    Today’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 […]

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  • Equality is not a Feeling, 12.0

    Posted on January 15, 2014 | 6 Comments
    The 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 […]

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  • Equality is not a Feeling, 11.0

    Posted on January 8, 2014 | 14 Comments
    Today’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 […]

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  • Equality is Not a Feeling, 8.0

    Posted on November 27, 2013 | 25 Comments
    This 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. […]

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  • Equality is Not a Feeling, 7.0

    Posted on November 20, 2013 | 4 Comments
    Today’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). […]

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  • 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 […]

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  • Equality is not a Feeling, 4.0

    Posted on October 30, 2013 | 12 Comments
    Another 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.   […]

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  • Women and the Priesthood: It’s Complicated

    Posted on September 24, 2013 | 92 Comments
    Once you become aware of the problem, you see it everywhere. It's cultural. It's systemic. It's grounded firmly in biases, faulty assumptions, and, fundamentally, in a lack of imagination.

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  • On Men and Heavy Lifting

    Posted on April 15, 2013 | 153 Comments
    Being in charge of everything isn't about power or control, it's about service. Men should be grateful that women create space for them to concentrate on doing what God expects of them.

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  • 37 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: The 1800s Called

    Posted on July 25, 2012 | 6 Comments
    . . . they want their magazine back.

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  • A Preview of Things to Come?

    Posted on March 12, 2012 | 4 Comments
    My son is the only boy in his Primary class, which makes him the only soon-to-be Young Man in the Valiant 11 group. He will be turning twelve this spring, which means he was also the only boy invited to the ward Priesthood Preview event, […]

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  • 20 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Half a Church

    Posted on February 19, 2012 | 60 Comments
    I have brought my daughter, dressed up and nervous with anticipation, gift in hand, to a birthday party where the boys will decide what games to play and what the rules will be. . .

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  • 14 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Uchtdorf Steps In It

    Posted on October 15, 2011 | 92 Comments
    "But PLEASE, for the love of God, don't tell us that God hasn't forgotten us. We're not that small. Or stupid."

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  • Love letters to Amy Poehler

    Posted on May 21, 2011 | 17 Comments
    A few years ago I was crossing Castro street in San Francisco after a yoga class when I was stopped by an enthusiastic man. “Hey! You look exactly like that girl from SNL, what’s her name?,” he asks. “Amy Poehler?” I offer, as if I’ve […]

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