inequality Archive

  • Equality is Not a Feeling, 9.0

    Today’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 […]

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  • Equality is Not a Feeling, 7.0

    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, 6.0

    This 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 […]

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  • Equality is not a Feeling, 4.0

    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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