Still, some want to see a faster pace for progress. Though she isn't the first single or child-free woman to hold a prominent role in the church, Eubank's example is encouraging to other members during a time of growth for women's roles in the faith nearly a decade after a key change for young women in its iconic missionary force.
"I think family is the building block of society … but I want my experience of not living with a husband and children right now to be recognized and accommodated." "We have to broaden out our approach and talk about family in a really inclusive way," said Eubank, who is both first counselor of the Relief Society and president of Latter-day Saint Charities, the church's humanitarian arm. 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 widely known as the Mormon church. SALT LAKE CITY - When she was younger, Sharon 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.
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