http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/11/the-secret-actress-netflix-gender-equality-hollywood-pay-gap?CMP=twt_gu
So, getting paid in Hollywood: this is a bit of a thing right now. Oh wait – if you’re a woman anywhere, it has always been a thing. In my industry and in many others across the world, women get paid less. A lot less. Fifty years after the US passed the equal pay act, women across the world still only get 77% of what men do. Jennifer Lawrence is in the wonderful and deserved position to be able to call the patriarchy out. Most female actors are not. I could tell you about four women I know – not giant stars, but you’d recognize them in the supermarket – who have been quietly blacklisted for having made a stink about not getting paid a commensurate amount to their male counterparts.
Apple co-founder criticises company over Apple Watch
The Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said he no longer recognises the company he built, thanks to creations such as the Apple Watch. He wrote in an interview on Reddit: “I love my Apple Watch, but - it’s taken us into a jewellery market where you’re going to buy a watch between $500 or $1,100 based on how important you think you are as a person. The only difference is the band in all those watches. Twenty watches from $500 to $1,100. The band’s the only difference? Well this isn't the company that Apple was originally, or the company that really changed the world a lot.”
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