I think capitalist principles absolutely cloud the issue because of course they’re going to pay anyone as little as possible. Its shitty because we’re routinely being paid less and then we get new jobs and they ask for our “requirements” in this nebulous way and all we can do is base it on previous jobs...where we may…

I agree. During discussions between my husband and I (husband coming down on the side of “waaahhh I only got paid 2 million instead of 3 million), I have defended the actresses—fair is fair and unequal pay is unequal pay, despite it being difficult from the whole “this feels like it’s not doing much to argue back…

Fucking thank you. If you pay me less because I’m a woman, you’re an asshole who’s devaluing my work based on the fact that I present as a vagina-having person. Don’t turn it around on me like “well YOU didn’t ask for more,” especially when, because of our cultural norms, I have no fucking clue what my male colleagues…

Yup.

Not to mention that, in Hollywood celebrities’ cases, the producer very specifically wants THEM. They don’t want “an actress who can play a strong female role in X film and accomplish X,” they want Jennifer Lawrence. Specifically. That gives you WAAAAAYYYY more leverage than your average woman trying to negotiate a…

Frankly, I wish female celebrity actors would refuse to discuss salary full-stop. No matter how cool their politics or approachable their discourse, they exist in an echelon in which they are 100% disconnected from what it means to pull 100-hour weeks to make enough for a mortgage in a shitty part of town (I do, and I…

Thanks for assuming you know my circumstances. You do not. I am a highly skilled professional who MUST work an office job (see also where I explained my former industry is in the toilet). I am the ONLY employee. I now choose to live near an elderly parent who needs my care. If I were willing to leave, I could go back…

Not to mention that as a women, if you happen to be interviewing or working for a man, chances are that when you ‘fight harder’ you get labeled a greedy bitch when a man is simply ‘asking for his worth.’

Thank you. It wasn’t easy. I had to work outdoors in a fracking theme park and on a CS phone line first!

Wow and congratulations on getting that job.

Hey anything but unionizing, am I right America? If you can’t get a better salary, then there must be something you’re doing wrong. Don’t think about the company. Just do better in a rigged game!

THIS.

Thank you. While I do think it’s important to discuss misogyny and inequality in the entertainment industry, Jennifer Lawrence and her experience is absolutely no comparison to every female in my actual life. I’m so glad this is being discussed. I have worked in recruiting and HR in the past. Women fighting for extra…

THIS. Men are offered a higher salary than women to start with, before any negotiating happens at all. Women who do negotiate tend to be penalized for being “pushy” or “bossy” and so on.

“The solution is that women need to negotiate better” is the troublesome part of this narrative. I don’t blame these actresses for…

The whole “fight harder” thing is really inappropriate. They have people to do it for them. And when I am fighting, face-to-face with an employer, to be the person they pick for an office job it certainly does not benefit me to “fight harder.” Be it for an extra dollar an hour or healthcare (non-existent from my very…

It strikes me as basically the conservative “boot straps!” mentality but applied to oneself. America just can't stop with the meritocracy ideals.

I’ve never been comfortable with the fiction that the reason women don’t make enough is that they don’t negotiate well. There is a god awful deoderant commercial that seems to reinforce this belief as well.

Why not? They are the ones who have the least to lose. Or do you suggest that women working minimum wage jobs should be the ones who put their source of income at risk for speaking up?

Is she married to Tevye from “fiddler on the Roof”?

It is. She is a monster.