On Monday, the 33-year-old actress penned a powerful essay about gender bias on her husband Ashton Kutcher's website. Mila used a recent involvement, wherein an unspecified producer endangered her career after she declined to strip down for a magazine cover to promote their film saying that she'd "never work in this town again." She used this event as a catalyst for a greater dialogue about gender inequality in the professional world.
"I was livid, I felt objectified, and for the first time in my career I said 'no. And guess what? The world didn't end. The film made a lot of money, and I did work in this town again, and again, and again," Kunis wrote. "What this producer may never realize is that he spoke aloud the exact fear every woman feels when confronted with gender bias in the workplace."
She also touched on the painfully slow pace at which the pay gap is closing and her own personal attempts to push back against blatant modern sexism.
"Throughout my career, there have been moments when I have been insulted, sidelined, paid less, creatively ignored, and otherwise diminished based on my gender," Kunis said. "I taught myself that to succeed as a woman in this industry I had to play by the rules of the boy's club. But the older I got and the longer I worked in this industry, the more I realized that it's bullsh*t!
The greatest part about her first-hand composition, is that she's working a step further. She's trying to enact a revolution.
"If this is happening to me, it is happening more aggressively to women everywhere. I have the platform to talk about this experience in the hope of bringing one more voice to the conversation so that women in the workplace feel a little less alone and more able to push back for themselves," Kunis expressed.
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