Sarah Greenberg

Yesterday, the US Census Bureau released new data on the wage gap between men and women in the United States from 2012. American women are on average, making 77 cents to every dollar a man makes, unchanged from last year. This figure has not budged over the past decade.

The numbers are frustrating on their own. But this inequity goes beyond the numbers and has real and serious affect on women and families and basic costs of living: food, housing, education, and retirement. Reform Jews in North America have been active on the issue of women’s economic justice for more than thirty years, but there is still so much more work to be done.