Mormon gender roles teach that women’s highest divine purpose is motherhood while men hold exclusive access to priesthood authority and church leadership. Girls are prepared to bear and raise children, while boys receive religious power that adult women can never hold.
This episode examines the pressure on Mormon women to marry young, have large families, stay home with their children, and place education or careers behind motherhood. We also cover the history of women giving healing blessings, the removal of female authority, and how Relief Society became subordinate to male priesthood leadership.
We discuss Mormon modesty culture, the policing of girls’ clothing, guilt placed on working mothers, the doctrine of eternal gender, and the claim that women don’t need the priesthood because they are supposedly more righteous than men. We also examine how these teachings affect women’s confidence, identity, mental health, and financial independence.
Mormon polygamy officially ended on earth, but eternal polygamy remains part of LDS sealing doctrine. We look at how plural marriage shaped expectations of male authority and female submission, why women can become financially trapped in unhealthy relationships, and how women continue to perform much of the church’s unpaid labor without control over doctrine, policy, budgets, or leadership.
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