Women in communication talk equality at the Oscars

Have you ever been proud of an accomplishment? Our center aims to “empower both women professionals and academics in all the fields of communication.”

So do several outstanding women in the movie industry. At the Oscars, 44 women nominees celebrated the work they’ve done. The #askhermore hashtag encouraged red carpet interviewers to ask female Oscar attendees about more than just their outfits.

Best Actress nominee Reese Witherspoon got the ball rolling. “It’s hard being a woman in Hollywood, or any industry,” she told an interviewer.

Later in the evening, the buzz continued when Patricia Arquette accepted her award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in “Boyhood.” She made a powerful call for wage equality for women.

“To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights,” she said. It’s our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America.”

The Academy Award crowd applauded her tremendously as does the LLK Center team. Arquette shined as she was acknowledged for her achievement.

According to International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), “women in the communication industry continue to be paid less than men for doing comparable work.”

Its survey showed that men were more likely than women to earn a high salary, and women were more likely to be in lower-paying positions. At the highest end of the pay scale, men were twice as likely as women to earn more than $230,000.