I could no longer overlook the fact that women are too often ignored in the church when I learned that the first woman was permitted to pray in the April 2013 General Conference. This is a conference broadcast twice a year to millions around the world. This occurred in part because of the efforts of a small group of LDS women who created the website "Let the Women Pray in General Conference" in January 2013. They petitioned the leaders of the church to permit a woman to pray in the April General Conference. The all-male top leadership granted their request.