The gender pay gap is a real problem in Hollywood, and not even world-famous, Oscar-winning actresses are immune.
It's such a top-down issue that Emma Stone has revealed her male co-stars have accepted pay cuts just to ensure she'd be compensated fairly.
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Stone recounted her experiences with pay inequality in an interview with Out while promoting her new movie Battle of the Sexes, about the famous tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
Here's Stone:
In the movie business — as in just about any business, where salary negotiations are done on an individual, blind basis — it's refreshing that Stone was able to talk to her male co-star(s) about this sensitive topic in the first place. And that those co-stars were subsequently willing to sacrifice their own paychecks to ensure she'd get the same money is, indeed, noble. Read more...
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