Gender Equity
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Demand a world that is safer and more just for people of all genders
Join us as we mobilize Jewish communities and pro-democracy people of faith in support of gender equity.
What’s the injustice?
From the workplace to the doctor’s office, women are subject to unequal and unjust treatment.
Women in the United States live and work at a systemic disadvantage, navigating a daily labyrinth of challenges and injustices — namely, a pay gap, restrictions to reproductive freedoms, and endemic exposure to sexual violence and gender discrimination. While American society has seen progress, women in this country continue to earn 85 cents to the man’s dollar. Since the supreme court ruling in 2022 that overturned federal constitutional protection to abortion, access to reproductive care is dependent on state law. Some states have expanded protections, while on the other hand some have enacted significant restrictions and near complete abortion bans, pushing abortion services out of reach for millions.
None of these realities exists in a vacuum; each is corrosive to American society and leads to other harmful outcomes in health, wealth, education, careers, and beyond. For black women, women of color, immigrants, trans women, and others with marginalized identities, the barriers to stability and prosperity are even more difficult to scale. COVID-19 shined a light on these disparities, often forcing mothers to assume disproportionate caregiving responsibilities, school-age girls to sacrifice their studies to take on additional work in the home, and many women to put their careers on indefinite hold.
What we believe
People of all genders deserve equal opportunity.
Women have played a central and vital role in the story and tradition of the Jewish people. We support efforts to dismantle the institutional barriers that women face on a daily basis. This includes advocating for policies and legislation that close the gender pay gap, expand reproductive rights, and root out harassment, assault, and discrimination.
We are engaged with our coalition partners in the fight to pass a piece of transformative legislation: AB 2119, which would help ensure that survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence receive fair and unbiased investigations of their cases.
Take action today and urge your California state legislators to support AB 2119 and protect survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.
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Connections: Jewish Sources
And Devorah, wife of Lappidoth, was a prophetess; she led Israel at that time. — Judges 4:4
Devorah served as a prophet, leader, and warrior in Israel with the same power and influence of the male counterparts of her era.
“And there drew near the daughters of Tzelofchad” (Number 27:1): When the daughters of Tzelofchad heard that the land was to be apportioned to the tribes and not to females they gathered together to take counsel. — Sifre b’midbar 133:1
In ancient times land was passed down from father to son. In the story of Tzelofchad, he had five daughters but did not have a son and when he passed away, his land was to be given to the community. But his daughters stood up in protest and won the will of God and received their father’s land.