Amy Watkins Jensen is a guest author here at Exponent II (“Not Enemies, But Friends: Advocates for Equality and the Institutional Church”) and creator of the awesome Women on The Stand Instagram page. She just had an excellent op-ed published in the Salt Lake Tribune that you should all check out too! It’s called “Voices: As Long as LDS women are invisible in the church, we will continue to be misrepresented in media”.
I always appreciate Amy’s calm and levelheaded approach to advocating for partnership over patriarchy as she consistently shares the many ways LDS doctrines already point to gender equality.
Unfortunately, despite the many reasons to not do so, we still place men unnecessarily at the top of every single hierarchy in the church. This might’ve made sense in the 1800s when women were still legally considered property, or even a hundred years ago when our current church leadership was born and women didn’t hold the rights they now do. None of this still makes any sense 2025. I love people like Amy who do such a good job pointing this out!
Amy writes, “The rare sight of women in leadership on the stand reflects a wider issue of visibility and representation. When Hollywood steps in to fill this vacuum, it offers a narrative that the women of the church could instead be telling for themselves. Visibility matters not for worldly acclaim but because it reflects doctrinal truths and helps align our practices with them.”
Check out her great article today and follow her on Instagram!
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Thank you for posting this! I followed the link and read the excellent article. I’m a Salt Lake Tribune subscriber and daily reader and I was surprised I hadn’t already seen it. I went back to my Salt Lake Tribune app and can’t find this article on it. Went to their Facebook page hoping they’d have a link, but no. I’m very disappointed in the Tribune this morning.