Jennifer Lawrence came up with an essay, which is about the low pay in the industry based on gender inequality. She says that male stars are paid highly than the female.
And she entitled her essay ‘Why Do I Make Less Than My Male Co-Stars?’ in this essay she penned about her views and opinions very clearly.
This essay is viewed on Lena Dunham's newsletter, Lenny Letter. Let's see what she said in her essay..
Jennifer when first heard of Lenny's letter she was excited much. She felt like she can complain about anything here, even this is not her first thought. She ended up in doing so. And it is completely fine.
“When Lena first brought up the idea of Lenny to me, I was excited. Excited to speak to Lena, who I think is a genius, and excited to start thinking about what to complain about (that's not what she pitched me, it's just what I'm gonna do)”
She doesn't like to engage in conversations which are trendy, she gave best example on this by pointing out very recent trendy thing, it is ‘Ice-bucket challenge’.
She quoted that this trendy move is more trendy than helping.
“-because it started to feel more like a ‘trend' than a cause” she said.
Jennifer told that she isn't perfect (of course none of us do). She also said that it's hard for her to speak about her experience as a working woman, because she safely say her problems aren't exactly relatable.
She talked about the Sony hack and that the people with d**k s (male stars) are lucky as they earn much.
She got mad at herself, but not at Sony. She also agreed that she failed as a negotiator because she gave up early.
Jennifer also said that every man she is working with definitely didn't worry about being “difficult” or “spoiled”.
“But this is an element of my personality that I've been working against for years, and based on the statistics, I don't think I'm the only woman with this issue”.
“My phone is on the counter and I'm on the couch, so a calculator is obviously out of the question”
Jennifer says that when women try to express their opinion it seems like offensive and scary to men.
“Could there still be a lingering habit of trying to express our opinions in a certain way that doesn't ‘offend' or ‘scare’ men?”
She mentioned Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper are successful in negotiating powerful deals for themselves.
“-When another leaked Sony email revealed a producer referring to a fellow lead actress in a negotiation as a ‘spoiled brat'. For some reason I just can't picture someone saying that about a man”
I think Jennifer Lawrence is right, male stars are going to get paid much other than the female stars. This indifference is coming from the beginning. Someone needs to talk about this issue and here comes Jennifer, this is really appreciated.
This is what her co-female stars thinks about her essay…
To read her the full essay subscribe to the Lenny newsletter. And you can also read directly the essay on Jennifer's official FB account by clicking here.
What's your opinion on her essay? Do you agree with what she said about the remuneration indifference based on gender? Feel free to share your views below in the comment section. Thank you :)
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