Blogger Caroline Kline was interviewed on Mormon Land Podcast this week! Discussing President Camille Johnson’s recent message at BYU Women’s Conference, Caroline said, “I have mixed feelings. Side by side with my happiness about this openness in terms of her speaking about her career, there’s also a little bit of frustration at what was left unsaid. Her decision to pursue a career and motherhood simultaneously in the 80s and 90s went against very clear counsel from the highest leaders of our church that told women to forgo paid employment. This was very clear rhetoric, outlining the dangers and misguided nature of mothers working, and the fact that women’s divine role was to be a mother in the home and not in the workforce. This rhetoric was powerful and pervasive, and it influenced a generation or two of women to either forgo their career dreams or feel a certain amount of guilt doing so, even if they had to do it for financial necessity.”

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