Patricia Arquette Calls For Wage Equality During The Oscars

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Patricia Arquette Calls For Wage Equality During The Oscars
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Arquette has made no secret of her feminist bona fides. In an interview with the Guardian about the film earlier this month, they asked her about how Hollywood treats aging actresses. “I was just enough of a feminist and pissed off about this unfair expectation to deal with it. It’s so insidious,” she told the newspaper. “Women in America, we act like we have equality when the truth is we don’t. With the Sony hack, it was recognized that those actresses worked every bit as hard, they were just as valuable commodities, they had won awards, they had huge followings and big audiences yet Jennifer (Lawrence) was paid less than the men?”

Arquette is referring to the fact that when hackers, allegedly from North Korea, released thousands of emails from the Sony production company they revealed that many actresses were paid less than their male peers.

“You could argue that it’s like that across the board. Wage difference between men and women is real. It’s not just Hollywood: women judges, doctors, lawyers make less than men. The world is sexist,” she said.

http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2015/02/22/3625691/patricia-arquette-calls-wage-equality-oscars/

[Omaha Steve]

1. She was fantastic

K&R!

[JDPriestly]

2. K&R. Thank you, Patricia Arquette.

[Cha]

3. That was great.. mahalo cal!

[jimlup]

4. Several Awesome activist moments tonight!

Wait I thought Edward Snowden was a traitor?

[rep the dems]

5. Jared Leto...

just had to be there

[Hulk]

6. Uh oh....get ready for the fox-nonsense smear in the morning....

You know fox-nonsense is going to have their jockeys in a bind in the morning cause THEIR movie got ignored.