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In the next wave of the #MeToo movement, women in the industry are breaking long-held taboos about talking about salary.
By Kim Masters • • 1 min readIn the next wave of the #MeToo movement, women in the industry are breaking long-held taboos about talking about salary.
Octavia Spencer told a moving story at a Sundance panel about teaming up with Jessica Chastain on a movie, and Chastain demanding Spencer get paid as much as she did. The result for Spencer? Five times her normal salary.
On the TV side of things, some women writers have launched a Google doc where people can anonymously enter their salary, and people can see roughly who is making what from each studio.
It looks like CBS and Viacom are set to re-combine, but there may well be a battle between Shari Redstone and Les Moonves along the way.
