Elizabeth Bernstein is a forty-year resident of Arizona, having moved to the Navajo Nation after graduating from Harvard Law School. There, among other matters, she represented the tribal government before the United States Supreme Court in the case of Kerr-McGee vs. Navajo Tribe. After the birth of their first child, she and her husband left the reservation for rural southern Arizona. Her years as a mother at home inspired her to research cultural messages about childrearing and their intersection with feminism. Later she returned to her first love, mathematics, and began a career as a high school math teacher. She now combines her various interests as she does math tutoring, legal consulting, and writing. Email: ebernsteinlex [at] gmail.com
by Elizabeth S. Bernstein To follow the popular discourse about the gender wage gap in the United States is to confront perpetual confusion. It is a confusion created at least in part by pronouncements of the type many of us have heard: “Women are paid only 82 cents for every dollar men earn! It is…