gender roles Archive

  • Unglorifying Motherhood

    Posted on May 8, 2014 | 18 Comments
    April showers are over and May flowers are starting to bloom.   This beautiful time of year has many people reflecting on the gratitude they feel for their many blessings in life.   It is only appropriate, then, that we show this gratitude by celebrating […]

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  • 45 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Pants-Wearing Women Running Wild

    Posted on December 12, 2012 | 21 Comments
    That, my friends, is how you maintain a cultural norm, and in that context, press releases telling women they can decide for themselves what to wear are meaningless.

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  • Why All Mormon Women Should Wear Pants to Church

    Posted on January 12, 2012 | 191 Comments
    [Photo Credit] This guest post is written by BDBeal.   Yes, it’s a post about women’s dress written by a man . . . ; All groups have their idiosyncrasies.   Mormons are no different, although there are days when I suspect we have more […]

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  • Assertiveness Training

    Posted on September 29, 2011 | 14 Comments
    I knew that even small acts of assertiveness would be important. Maybe it didn't change the world but for that individual woman, it was world-changing.

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  • Papa, Watch me Fly!

    Posted on May 27, 2011 | 5 Comments
    On Sunday nights, we gather all the piles of clean laundry into the living room and fold it while watching a movie. The kids were not amused by my choice last Sunday: “Yentl” (now stream-able on Netflix!). They don’t like to watch “old” movies and […]

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