Jennifer Lawrence Opens Up About Hollywood’s Gender Pay Gap in Frank New Essay1 min read

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“I don’t think I’ve ever worked for a man in charge who spent time contemplating what angle he should use to have his voice heard. It’s just heard.”

Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence has broken her self-professed attitude of “remain[ing] ever-so-slightly quiet” about hot button issues with a new essay in Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner’s newly launched “Lenny” newsletter.

In a new piece entitled “Why Do I Make Less Than My Male Co”‘Stars?,” Lawrence examines the Hollywood pay gap through her own experiences and finds that staying silent about it is no longer a viable option for her.

Lawrence writes, “It’s hard for me to speak about my experience as a working woman because I can safely say my problems aren’t exactly relatable. When the Sony hack happened and I found out how much less I was being paid than the lucky people with dicks, I didn’t get mad at Sony. I got mad at myself. I failed as a negotiator because I gave up early.” But things started changing for Lawrence when she realized the impact her choices and attitude were making in a much larger sense: “I saw the payroll on the Internet and realized every man I was working with definitely didn’t worry about being ‘difficult’ or ‘spoiled.'”

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