Equal Pay Day, Jewish Values, and Fighting Gender-Based Wage Discrimination
March 31 marks how far into the new year women must work to receive in wages what their male counterparts earned in the previous calendar year.
I carry the trauma of my ancestors, who were kidnapped and enslaved, who survived post-abolition racist terrorism, and who survived devastating Jim Crow laws. I also carry the history of the Jewish people, who have survived countless acts of violence, forced conversion, and genocide.
I run the Squirrel Hill Health Center, a nonprofit federally funded community health center in Pittsburgh. Many people have asked me what it feels like in the trenches. The answer? We feel very much alone.