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is senior rabbi of a category
D UAHC congregation, but
she is not a CCAR member
and did not receive her or-
dination from the Reform
seminary. He other fay:
tors were involved in her
selection.
While there is widespread
agreement in the Reform
movement that a gender gap
exists, there is much less
certainty as to the reasons.
Rabbi Rosalind Gold of
Reston, Va., chairperson of
the CCAR Task Force on
Women in the Rabbinate,
believes that congregations
are simply unaware of the
problem of salary
disparities. When they are
told, "they rectify" the prob-
lem. She sees the problem as
one of educating congrega-
tions about the gender gap.
But Rabbi Deborah Prinz
of Poway, Calif., said that
"compensation alone con-
tinues to separate us from
our male colleagues; it is not
interest, passion, success or
skill that divide us, but fair
compensation."
Rabbi Ellen Weinberg of
San Diego declared that in
some cases, congregations do
discriminate. "It's very hard
to prove but it certainly ex-
ists," she said.
Rabbi Joseph Glaser,
CCAR executive vice presi-
dent, told Winer he doubted
any Reform congregation
"has consciously taken ad-
vantage of the woman's be-
ing a woman. But there is a
subtle pressure in which the
woman rabbi says, 'You
leave me alone and I'll leave
you alone.' "
The market processes start
to grind, he said, "and un-
consciously we wind up with
the clear trends that we now
have."
A more widespread view of
the reasons for the Reform
rabbinate's gender gap is the
belief that woman rabbis are
reluctant to accept the
demands associated with a
large congregation. They
prefer a different lifestyle.
Winer believes this is
probably the reason for the
observation by Rabbi
Stanley Dreyfus, director of
the UAHC-CCAR Joint
Rabbinic Placement Com-
mission, that "very rarely do
individual members of sear-
ch committees indicate they
would rather have a male"
for their congregations.
"But comparatively few
women request listing on
panels for medium size or
large congregations,"
Dreyfus added.

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