Capstones
Graduation Date
Fall 12-16-2019
Grading Professor
Salma Abdelnour Gilman
Subject Concentration
Arts & Culture
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Abstract
While working on Steven Spielberg's 2005 miniseries "Into the West," Indigenous-Latina actress Tonantzin Carmelo achieved pay parity with her white male co-stars thanks to a contract clause called "favored nations. Now 15 years later, and in the height of Hollywood's gender parity movement, Hollywood actresses are strategically using the very same clause to chip away at the pay gap. This 7000-word narrative feature explains the historical use of this clause, identifies how actresses are leveraging its power to achieve pay parity on their projects and answers why it's not a one-size-fits-all fix for Hollywood pay inequity.
Recommended Citation
White, Abbey M., "How Actresses Jessica Chastain, Octavia Spencer and Reese Witherspoon Are Fighting Pay Disparity One Project At a Time" (2019). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gj_etds/785
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