Viola Davis is done waiting on the sidelines — she's speaking up about race and gender inequality of pay. #WomensHistoryMonth
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00:00I have a career that's probably comparable to Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Sigourney Weaver,
00:06and yet I am nowhere near them.
00:09Not as far as money, not as far as job opportunities, nowhere close to it.
00:31I have to go in and I have to hustle for my worth.
00:35That's what I feel like I'm doing.
00:41We won't talk about gender inequality of pay,
00:44because a lot of the women who've stepped forward, and I stand in solidarity with them, okay?
00:49What they're getting paid, which is half of what a man is getting paid,
00:52well, we get probably a tenth of what a Caucasian woman gets.
00:55Here's the thing, women of color, on that spectrum, we make far less than white women.
01:01So if we're going to have that conversation about pay equity,
01:05we've got to bring the women of color to the table.