Susa Young Gates

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On May 27, 1870, Gates became the secretary of the Young Ladies Retrenchment Association. The Association was created as a way for young LDS women to support each other and connect with each other.

Gates was involved in different educational institutions in Utah. Gates entered Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah, in 1878 where she taught music lessons and founded the music department.: 112  In the 1890s, Gates returned to BYU and acted as a board member. While there, Gates created the home economics department and taught a physiology and genealogy class. She was appointed as a member of the board of trustees of the Agricultural College of Utah in Logan, Utah. At the same college, she was also a member on a committee on home economics and art.: 159, 361

Throughout her life, Gates founded many organizations. She was one of the co-founders of the Utah Women's Press Club. Gates organized the Utah chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution. Gates also founded the Sons and Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. She also helped to organize the National Household Economic Association.

Along with other local church responsibilities and assignments, Gates was also a member of the general board of the LDS Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association. During her time on the board, Gates wrote the first two lesson guidebooks.

Gates was a member of the National Council of Women (NCW) and she attended multiple NCW conferences. She also served as the chair of the US National Council of Women Press Committee.

During some of Gates' career, there was a strong anti-Mormon sentiment in the United States, largely due to the church's practice of polygamy. This caused some disruption in Gates' career as some women did not want to associate with a Utahan or a Mormon. An example of this is when Susan B. Anthony refused to work with Gates anymore because she had not left the religion which practiced polygamy. Throughout her career, Gates defended her religion and contended to be accepted.

Gates was involved in many different positions in the LDS church. Some of her positions include:

While not an official assignment in the church, Gates wrote the first lesson manual for Sunday school lessons.: 159  As a prominent member of the church, Gates enjoyed close relationships with church leaders and was able to be influential in some church policies and decisions. Throughout her life, Gates was close friends with Joseph F. Smith, the sixth president of the church.: 319  In one letter to Gates, Smith refers to her and her husband as being among his "best and truest friends.": 329

Gates was an outspoken proponent of women's suffrage. In 1880, Gates organized a class in St. George which was called "Civil Government." In 1882, Gates was elected as an alternate delegate for an convention of the People's Party, a political group greatly influenced by the church. Throughout her life, Gates was active in promoting women's rights and women's suffrage. She was a founding organizer of the National Household Economics Organization, served as a delegate and speaker to five congresses of the International Council of Women and was a delegate and officer of the National Council of Women. Gates was also elected as an alternate delegate of the Republican National Convention in Chicago in 1908. She attended several Republican National Conventions. Gates was active in politics until 1916, when she retired from her political activism with a few exceptions.: 378–379  Throughout her whole life, Gates was a staunch Republican and espoused conservative ideology.: 408

Gates was a primary organizer of the Utah chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, and the National Woman's Press Club. Gates was also a member of the Board of Regents of Brigham Young University from 1891 to 1933, and Utah State Agricultural College from 1906 to 1912.

Gates was also active in genealogy and LDS Church temple work. Young researched her father's and mothers family history in depth. She managed the genealogy departments in the Deseret News and Inter Mountain Republican, and edited and wrote columns for both papers in 1906. She later became the head of the Research Department and Library of the Genealogical Society of Utah in 1923. Gates was the chair of the Genealogical Committee of the Relief Society. In this position, Gates created monthly lessons on genealogy for other women of the Relief Society.

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