Gender Inequality

  • NewsGregory Wakeman

    Hilary Swank was offered just $500k compared to ‘hot’ male actor’s $10 million, even after second Oscar win

    Hilary Swank has revealed that shortly after winning her second Best Actress Academy Award she was instantly, and depressingly, reminded of the humungous pay-gap between male and female actors. Speaking to Chelsea Handler on the Netflix’s ‘Chelsea’, Swank, who won the gong for her performance in 2004’s ‘Million Dollar Baby’ after previously claiming it in 1999 for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’, revealed that she was offered just 5% of her male counterpart, who hadn’t received any critical success for his pr

  • NewsBen Skipper

    Emma Watson: 'Calling Me A Feminazi Is Not Going To Stop Me'

    Emma Watson has hit back at critics of her continuing efforts to campaign for gender equality, telling People magazine that insults like “feminazi” won’t stop her “trying to do the right thing”. “We are not supposed to talk about money, because people will think you’re ‘difficult’ or a ‘diva’,” Watson said in an interview with People magazine. Watson, who founded equality organisation HeForShe to help get men thinking about these issues, added: "Whether you are a woman on a tea plantation in K