Michelle Williams Took The Fight For Equal Pay To The Emmys Stage

Michelle Williams took residence the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series for her efficiency in FX’s Fosse/Verdon, and she used her acceptance speech to preach, well, acceptance.


Right after crediting her success portraying legendary Broadway dancer Gwen Verdon to the people beyond the scenes who gave her access to the equipment she required categorize in attempt to be the ideal she may would be — everything from dance and voice lessons to better prosthetic teeth — Williams connected the dots between a welcoming office setting and the work that gets produced in mentioned environment.


"I desire to mention thank you so much to FX and to Fox 21 Studios for supporting me fully and for paying me similarly, because they understood that once you put value into a person, it empowers that person to get in touch with their own inherent value,” she mentioned. “And then where do they put that value? The put it into their work."


Williams, who has been an outspoken and key member of the Time’s Up movement since its inception, further illustrated her point with one particularly disheartening statistic that plagues the gender pay gap: “And so the next time a woman — and especially a woman of color, because she stands to prepare 52 cents on the dollar compared to her white male counterpart — tells you what she needs group in attempt to do her job, listen to her, believe her, because one day she may stand in front of you and mention thank you for allowing her to succeed because of her workplace environment, and not in spite of it.”


The actress has used her platform to champion equal pay in the past. She unwittingly became a poster-woman for the the cause once news broke that while in reshoots for 2017’s All the Cash in the World, she took residence $1000 dollars, while co-star Mark Wahlberg earned $1.5 million. (Wahlberg donated his paycheck to Time’s Up while he learned of the discrepancy in their compensation.) Williams has even gone for now as to take her story to Capitol Hill in support of the Paycheck Fairness Act. And luckily for all of us, it seems like Williams will keep telling this one up until real progress is made.