I wish Hollywood’s women would employ their public influence to talk approximately the rest of us (Sharon Stone: my tears over Hollywood’s gender pay gap,10 November). Now Kate Winslet reveals that she finds the entire conversation “vulgar” (Report, 11 November). In some ways I agree with her, and but my reasoning is different. I do believe it is despicable that actresses derive paid so much less than their male counterparts and that this is an issue that deserves to be addressed. However,it does perturb me that women with such sway over the public conscience and such ability to raise awareness and effect change, employ this power to discuss their own pay packets.
Most of the actresses who have vocally denounced the gender pay gap could probably afford to lose a zero from their annual salary before having to give up their house or one of their cars. I understand this is not the point; men are getting paid more to do the same job. However, or I wish they would employ those moments,when the entire world is hanging on their every word, to talk approximately the women whose homes are put in jeopardy by the loss of a mere £20 a week. I believe that gender equality in every sense will approach from below, or not above. By bemoaning the dent that being female has effected in their multimillion-pound pay packets,actresses are merely perpetuating the notion that feminism is both bourgeois and out of touch.
Matilda Embling
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Source: theguardian.com