An Equal Partnership in Families Between Men and Women

Many people throughout the world wonder why women cannot be equal to men. In fact many people have been protesting and going to women's marches for several weeks. But has anybody ever tried to make it so that women and men felt like they were equals in their partnerships, or tried to teach them that we have all been equal from the beginning.
Equality is all to often used to mean an "identity"-that is, two equal things must be completely identical to one another. What two things are 100% alike? Nothing that I know of. We have been taught since we were little, that no two leaves or snowflakes, or people are exactly alike. Such usage represents a fallen and harmful understanding of equality that is given by Lucifer, who is over passionate about everybody being "just like himself". (2 Nephi 2:27)

Joseph Smith and Emma Hale Smith are also two people who I think worked together as equal partners.

Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin taught "All of Heavenly Father's children are different in some degree, yet each has his own beautiful sound that adds depth and richness to the whole". In my Successful Marriages & Families book, it is shared about things that we believe to be true both here and in Zion about equality of men and women: equal in blessings; equal in power; intelligence, wisdom; dignity; respect; giving counsel; giving consent; agency; value; potential; authority; exalted fullness; virtue; spirituality; spiritual gifts; equal in temporal things in Zion; and equal heirs with Christ.
We learn from Elder Earl C. Tingey, a former member of the seventy, "You must not misunderstand what the Lord meant when Adam was told he was to have a helpmeet. A helpmeet is a companion suited to or equal to us. We walk side by side withe a helpmeet, not one before us or behind the other. A helpmeet results in an absolute equal partnership between a husband and a wife. Eve was to be equal to Adam as a husband and wife are to be equal to each other."

Adam & Eve

Many people don't understand how equal partnership and stewardship should go. Family stewardships should be understood in terms of their responsibilities-obligations to one's spouse, not power over one's spouse. "In some cultures, tradition places a man in a role to dominate, control, and regulate all family affairs. That is not the way of the Lord. In some places the wife is almost owned by her husband, as if she were another of his personal possessions. That is a cruel, mistaken vision of marriage encouraged by Lucifer that every priesthood holder must reject. It is founded on the false premise that a man is somehow superior to a woman. Nothing could be farther from the truth." (Richard G. Scott)
Many people believe many different things about how women and men are not equal, nor should they ever be. I don't understand why a person would believe that. We know that when we get married, we are getting married hopefully for the same reason. We shouldn't be getting married if there is another idea in our minds that will take us away from the path that Jesus Christ would have us be on.
In my own life, one couple that I see as treating people equally is my parents. My dad is so sweet and he loves my mom so much. You can see it when they interact with one another. There isn't anything that my dad can do or does, that he won't let my mom do. If she wants to do something, than he lets her. He wants her to be able to have any experience that she wants. But my mom is the same way. If my dad wants to do something, she lets him do it. They make decisions together and they work things out together.

My mom and dad in front of the Salt Lake Temple