Brilliant women share the ways they tackled equal pay in Hollywood and beyond.
, a film that sent her star ascendant and earned her an Oscar nomination. Henson asked producers for $500,000 for the role. They paid her $150,000.Henson added that, now, she will say goodbye to a job if the pay is not equal. “If you want a discount performance, go get it,” she said. “They’re out there. But you’re not getting it from me. I deliver, and I have the track record to prove it.”Natalie Portman on equal pay:"I wasn’t as pissed as I should have been. The disparity is crazy.
“I think my goal is to make sure that all women of colour get equal pay, and all women get equal pay,” Spencer said. She recounted a story in which Jessica Chastain helped her receive a raise five times her initial quote on a forthcoming film they were both headlining by negotiating salary alongside her.. “Jessica and I stood together, and that was interesting that she would take that position – well I mean, she is Jessica Chastain – but we also need advocates and allies in negotiating.
She added that she believed that the industry was changing, slowly. “I could tell my workplace was shifting,” she said. “Rather than being grasped too tightly or hugged for too long as a morning greeting, my hand was shaken and I was looked squarely in the eye and I was welcome to my Monday morning. On the job I completed two weeks ago, I have to tell you, I was paid equally with my male co-star.”Julianna Margulies on equal pay:"I was more surprised than hurt.
“There were many times where I reached out about joining together to negotiate, but he was never interested in that.Grey’s Anatomy
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