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Sony’s Pascal Defends Paying Women Like J-Law Less
Sony’s Pascal: Tell Me They Don’t Have Our Emails
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Departing Sony Pictures Entertainment co-Chairman Amy Pascal defended the film studio’s practice, exposed in hacked e-mails, of paying female stars like Jennifer Lawrence less than their male counterparts.
“I run a business. People want to work for less money, I’ll pay them less money. I don’t call them up and go, can I give you some more?” Pascal said at the Women in the World event last night in San Francisco, where she was interviewed onstage by Tina Brown. Women shouldn’t work for less money, she said. “They have to walk away. People shouldn’t be so grateful for jobs.”