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 t...