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Latter-day Saint women’s influence expands despite priesthood ban

“We’ve made mistakes in our history and we’re still making mistakes,” says Relief Society leader Sharon Eubank, “but the foundation is to try and always improve.”

(Rick Bowmer | AP) Sharon Eubank, first counselor in the general presidency of the Relief Society, which is made up of all adult women in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, poses for a photograph Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, in Salt Lake City. When she was younger, Eubank figured she would one day marry and form the kind of nuclear family typically expected of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Today, at 58, she is neither married nor a mother but glad to embody a different image of womanhood as one of the top female leaders in the male-dominated faith.

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