Michelle Williams Talks to Congress About Equal Pay
by EG
Michelle Williams was infamously paid .07% what Mark Wahlberg was paid for identical work on the film All the Money in the World, and she wasn't happy when she found out. This week she talked to Congress about how her experience is far from unique. Read on for details.
Via People.
Michelle Williams is opening up the pay disparity she experienced while working with Mark Wahlberg on All the Money in the World.
The four-time Oscar nominee spoke on Capitol Hill Tuesday while advocating for House Democratic legislation that would close the gender pay gap.
Williams joined Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus to mark Equal Pay Day as she recounted discovering Wahlberg, 47, had made $1.5 million compared to her paycheck of less than $1,000 for reshoots on the Ridley Scott film.
“It’s the kind of story I would normally resist: the morality tale with a happy ending, or rather a happy beginning because that’s really why I’m here,” Williams said. “There won’t be satisfaction for me until I can exhaust my efforts ensuring that all women experience the elevation of their self-worth and its connection to the elevation of their market worth.”
“In late 2017, the news broke that I’d been paid less than $1,000 compared to the $1.5 million that my male counterpart had received for the exact same amount of work,” she continued. “And guess what, no one cared. This came as no surprise to me, it simply reinforced my life-learned belief that equality is not an inalienable right and that women would always be working just as hard for less money while shouldering more responsibility at home.”
Williams said she was “paralyzed in feelings of futility” after learning of the pay disparity.
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