“It reminds us all that it’s a structural problem we’re dealing with. “This isn’t just a story about women at the top, it’s about women in every sector, at every level,” she said. Despite dealing with some of the world’s best-paid artists, the issues they raise are relevant to everyone, said Sam Smethers, the chief executive of the women’s rights charity The Fawcett Society. Lawrence, the daughter of a construction worker and a children’s camp manager, doesn’t have a social media presence and has not made a statement about her pay.įorbes publishes the figures in a week when a new study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found that women in the UK are on average earning 18% less than men in similar jobs. The ages of the female stars are not listed on the Forbes press release, but Lawrence, 26, is the youngest.Įarlier this year Johnson, whose family struggled to pay rent when he was a teenager, reacted to the news that he was the highest paid actor on Forbes’s Celebrity 100 list by taking to Instagram, writing that his pay packet was “an anchoring reminder to continue to work even harder”. Ford, at 74, is the oldest actor on both lists. ![]() ![]() Of the top male earners, 95% are over 40, compared to half of the women. The lists also suggest older women are discriminated against when it comes to pay. The lowest paid man on the male list of 20 (Harrison Ford – $15m) earned $5m more than the lowest paid woman of the female list of 10 (Indian star Deepika Padukone – $10m). Second on the female list is Ghostbusters star Melissa McCarthy ($33m), who would place eighth on the male top 10. The Hunger Games star, who wrote last year of about the injustice of being paid less than “lucky people with dicks” after the Sony hacks revealed she was paid less than her male American Hustle co-stars, is one of the few women paid anywhere near as much as the leading men. She earned $46m over the last year, putting her above male stars such as Ben Affleck ($43m) and Vin Diesel ($35m). ![]() Lawrence is the world’s sixth highest paid actor.
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