Does having different roles make one better or lesser than another?
Does having different roles make one better or lesser than another? No. I don't think so. It annoys me when people try to tell me that Mormons consider women inferior. We do believe that men and women have different roles, but as the quotes below clearly show, we do not consider women inferior in any sense.
"fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners."
The Family: A Proclamation to the World
“I want to say to young women here today, do not ever have any inferiority complex about your place in this world in which you live. You are a daughter of God, and I am satisfied that our Father in Heaven loves His daughters as much as He loves His sons. You hold up your heads and stand tall and walk in righteousness and faith and virtue and truth and do not let anybody put you down or sell you short. You are daughters of God. Live worthy of your divine inheritance, my beloved young women. You are not inferior in any sense. Under the gospel plan you are daughters of God. Each of us has our place in the great divine plan, and we ought to magnify the calling and the field and the assignment and the qualities of good which we have within us” (Ricks College regional conference, Rexburg, Idaho, 29 October 1995). --Gordon B. Hinckley, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
"fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners."
The Family: A Proclamation to the World
“I want to say to young women here today, do not ever have any inferiority complex about your place in this world in which you live. You are a daughter of God, and I am satisfied that our Father in Heaven loves His daughters as much as He loves His sons. You hold up your heads and stand tall and walk in righteousness and faith and virtue and truth and do not let anybody put you down or sell you short. You are daughters of God. Live worthy of your divine inheritance, my beloved young women. You are not inferior in any sense. Under the gospel plan you are daughters of God. Each of us has our place in the great divine plan, and we ought to magnify the calling and the field and the assignment and the qualities of good which we have within us” (Ricks College regional conference, Rexburg, Idaho, 29 October 1995). --Gordon B. Hinckley, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.