Oscar award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence bravely talked about gender gap on Lena Dunham's brand new feminist blog, Lenny. According to Inquisitr, Lawrence wrote an essay entitled, "Why Do I Make Less Than My Co-Stars," which talked about the disparity of salaries in Hollywood amongst men and women.
In her essay, Jennifer shared her sentiment regarding having enough of the gender wage gap. She also wrote about improving herself for the better in order for her to get the salary that she deserves. The actress wrote her essay in a straight-forward yet accepting manner.
After Jennifer poured her heart out in her essay, she earned a lot of support from Hollywood and even from presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton. According to E! News, Mrs. Clinton tweeted her praise and admiration for J-Law's courage of opening up about gender wage gap.
"Brava, Jennifer," wrote the former Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton, in her tweet. "It's hard to speak up against inequity and risk being unpopular-but equal pay matters for us all," the former first lady continued.
Accrording to Yahoo! News, another A-list who also made a comment about Jennifer was Oprah Winfrey. Oprah shared during her guest show in "CBS This Morning" that after reading Jennifer's piece, she had said, "Wow, this sounds like 1985."
Oprah shared that at the time that "The Oprah Winfrey Show" was first getting syndicated, she told the management that her producers needed raises and that four of them were women. The management told Oprah, " 'Why do they need raises? Why do a bunch of girls need raises?' They're not married; they don't have children; they don't own their own houses. This is 1985 in Chicago."
At the height of her popularity in Hollywood, Jennifer found out that she was paid significantly less money than her male co-stars in the movie "American Hustle," as reported by E! News. Jennifer shared that, "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." She added, "I got mad at myself." Jennifer continued explaining that, "she failed as a negotiator because she gave up easily." And she bravely admits that, "her desire to be liked inhibited her ability to ask for money for fear that people wouldn't find her as endearing anymore."
Lawrence clearly pointed out in her essay about salary inequality in Hollywood, but she also reiterated that "she does not need the millions being offered to her but instead wonders if her male colleagues share her concerns."
