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Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune Photo illustration about the equality of women in the LDS Church. The Associated Press Elizabeth Cady Stanton, reformer, advocate of women's rights in an undated photo. LDS women formed alliances Neylan McBaine, founder of the Mormon Women Project, says LDS women experience a "tremendous amount of pain" over what they can an Chelsea Shields Strayer, Mormon blogger and activist. Courtesy image. Tribune File Photo Belle Spafford oversaw LDS Relief Society for nearly 30 years in the mid-20th century and helped with global re Margaret Young, BYU English professor, says members with concerns about the gender roles outlined in the LDS Church's 1995 family File | The Salt Lake Tribune Some Mormons argue that LDS women should be allowed to serve full-time missions at age 19 and for t Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune Historian Kate Holbrook, shown here during her research of Mormon food culture, is co-dire Jana Riess, Mormon writer and editor, regrets that LDS women "are so systematically underutilized." Credit: Jana Riess Tresa Edmunds, founder of LDS WAVE, says Mormon women "will be marginalized" as longs as church leadership hinges upon the all-mal Kristine Haglund, editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, says LDS women yearn to be more useful within their faith. Cre Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian at Harvard, laments what she calls "the great disappearance" o Stephen Holt | Special to the Tribune "The purpose of Relief Society is to prepare daughters of God for the blessings of eternal l Julie B. Beck, former LDS General Relief Society presient. Beck served five years as the faith's top women's leader. Some LDS femi Kim Raff | The Salt Lake Tribune Julie B. Beck speaks after being relieved as Relief Society president during the182nd Annual Gen