Sharon Stone Shares Her Opinion On Gender And Wage Gap

Known for her role in the 1992 film Basic Instinct, actor Sharon Stone revealed that she was paid significantly less than the male actors after the film. According to People, Sharon stated “After Basic Instinct, no one wanted to pay me”, sharing her experience with the wage disparity issue in Hollywood. The 57-year-old actor is an advocate for women’s rights.

“I remember sitting in my kitchen with my manager and just crying and saying ‘I’m not going to work until I get paid’. I still got paid so much less than any man”, she said. Sharon added that this issue is not just in Hollywood but everywhere else as well stating, “[change] has to start with regular pay, not just for movie stars, but regular pay for the regular woman in the regular job”.

Sharon worked as a waitress before a career as an actor and said, “I waited tables and scrubbed floors and everything else on the way up, and you must make the same, and it’s not cool that you don’t. More than 50 per cent of marriages end in divorce and the women are working and taking care of their kids and that’s how it goes and you have to say ‘Yes’ because you have to feed your children. It’s a sort of economic blackmail”. Basic Instinct starred Michael Douglas as the male lead along with George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Denis Arndt.

Source: huffpost.com