At the just-completed 193rd Annual General Conference, of the 33 speakers in the five sessions, two were women.
, documented that Latter-day Saint leaders quote men more than 16 times for every one time they cite a woman.
One woman simply said, “I don’t watch anymore. I deserve so much better. We all do,” Hinckley noted. “It is clear to me that this is one place the church could take what would be perceived by members as a huge step forward with very minimal effort. Only two female speakers per session would yield 5 times more talks by women.
Indeed, when “the most powerful leaders in the church use their limited time in the spotlight to highlight someone else’s words, they send a signal about how that source should be perceived,” Wells writes in her piece for “The sources that appear in General Conference,” she writes, “are deliberately chosen with the spiritual and institutional goals of the church’s highest leaders in mind.”• Besides other prophets and scripture, presidents also quote current and past apostles, as well as secular poets and historical figures, including William Wordsworth, philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, and New York Times columnist David Brooks.• Female church leaders make up 1.
There have been some recent efforts to elevate Latter-day Saint women’s voices in books and online publications.“At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women,”
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