LDS Women Don’t Hold the Priesthood: A Professional LDS Woman’s Perspective on Equality, Gender Roles and the Family
LDS Women Don’t Hold the Priesthood: A Professional LDS Woman’s Perspective on Equality, Gender Roles and the Family Over the course of my professional career, my colleagues have inquired, with respect and concern, how I could be a member of the LDS church. They wonder how a women who is intelligent, educated and successful embraces concepts of gender roles that they view old fashion or demeaning to women. These questions allow me to correct fundamental mis-understandings regarding LDS doctrine and LDS families. Not only do I live and work in a man’s world, I work with some very rough men in a tough industry. The experiences solving business problems with them, knee to knee, have caused me to embrace rather than reject my femininity. As I sit around the table, a decade younger than anyone else in the room and in a brightly colored dress and heels, nobody is going to mistake me for one of the guys. Nobody is going to seek me to be their next drinking buddy or to wat