Synopsis:
Danielle and Cori dive into the varied, and at times complex, reasons for the continual gender pay gap in the arts and entertainment industry for female-identifying artists. Including how aspects of the industry such as unions, contracts, writing, and casting play a role in this divide.
Hosts & Producers: Cori Hundt & Danielle Joy
Original Music: Rafe Terrizzi
Production Company: Via Brooklyn Theatre Co.
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Link to “Spill” Articles Discussed in Season 1 Episode 4:
Jennifer Lawrence slams Hollywood’s gender pay gap: ‘It doesn’t matter how much I do’
CNBC.com
September 7, 2022
Morgan Smith
These are Hollywood’s 25 top paid actors of 2022 and 2023
En.as.com
April 10, 2023
David Arroyo
Insider.com
July 23, 2023
It’s Equal Pay Day. The gender pay gap has hardly budged in 20 years. What gives?
Ktoo.com
March 14, 2023
Stacey Vanek Smith
Hollywood’s million dollar gender pay gap – revealed
Hud.ac.uk
2019
Caregiver Statistics: A Data Portrait of Family Caregiving in 2023
APlaceForMom.com
Claire Samuels
June 15, 2023
Notes on this Episode:
In this podcast we use the term “female-identifying”, however, sometimes we do just say the word “women”, by which we mean it inclusively as anyone who identifies as female. We will continue to do our best throughout this podcast series to use the proper terminology and educate ourselves as preferred syntax continues to evolve.
This episode of “Still…?!” The Podcast, “The Gender Pay Gap is Still an Issue,” was recorded on May 27, 2023, before the SAG-AFTRA strike of 2023 went into effect
SAG-AFTRA is mentioned in this episode, it stands for the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
AEA is mentioned in this episode, it stands for the Actors Equity Association
AGMA is mentioned in this episode, it stands for the American Guild of Musical Artists
AGVA is mentioned in this episode, it stands for the American Guild of Variety Artists
GIAA is mentioned in this episode, it stands for Guild of Italian American-Actors
Please note these unions listed above all are sister unions. This means if you've been a member in good standing of SAG-AFTRA, AGMA, AGVA, or GIAA for at least one year and have worked for at least one day under that union's jurisdiction as a principal (or three days as a background artist), you are eligible to join AEA
The WGA mentioned in this episode stands for the Writers Guild of America, which is not a sister union to the ones listed above
ACTRA mentioned in this episode stands for the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists
Background actors on the latest SAG-AFTRA contract made $187/per day on a theatrical contract, not including any overtime. Non-union actors would make less than this as a standard rate
Please also note that Tom Cruise does most of his own stunts, but not all of them. This was accidentally mentioned incorrectly
For the “Spill…?!” section, in the “New York Times” article titled, "June Theater Jobs Skew White and Male, Study Finds”, the data was from 2013-2015, not 2017 as was accidentally mentioned incorrectly
According to the NACE, “the term “equity” refers to fairness and justice and is distinguished from equality: Whereas equality means providing the same to all, equity means recognizing that we do not all start from the same place and must acknowledge and make adjustments to imbalances.”
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