In the broadcast, the women of the Relief Society General Presidency — the philanthropic and educational women’s organization within the church — spoke in broad and glowing terms about the ...

Speaking at a women’s conference this month in Arcadia, California, apostle Dale Renlund tackled head-on a question about the church’s lack of gender equality and representation.

In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, the U.S. bishops consulted an estimated 75,000 women in the writing of a pastoral letter on women, which included voices that were critical of the church.