Michelle Rodriguez has been an activist for equal pay for women for years. According to Payscale, women earned just $0.81 for every dollar men earned in 2020. The pay discrepancy between male and female actors in the film industry is even more out of whack. An investigation performed by Fast Company revealed that the highest-paid male actors earned an average of $57.4 million compared to female actors at $21.8 million.
Rodriguez often plays a tough girl in her acting roles, and she's taking that grit to the fight for equal pay for women. In an interview with Newsweek, Rodriguez said she's felt like more of an activist than an actor for most of her career, noting that money is power in the world we live in.
"The situation is, we live in a dog-eat-dog world. Anything that involves trade and capitalism is going to involve taking advantage of the little guy or girl," she said. "And so that means, if I'm not going to hire guys because I have to pay them more, then I'm gonna hire women and make them work harder, and it's like slave labor. It's just evil."
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