t was widely reported that Lisa Wilkinson resigned
from her role as co-anchor of the Nine Network's Today Show
after a decade because the network did not match her salary with
that of her male co-anchor, Karl Stefanovic. The Nine Network was
allegedly paying Wilkinson $200,000 less than Stefanovic, whose
salary was $2 million.
Hollywood actress Claire Foy, who played the leading role of
Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix drama 'the Crown', was
paid less than her male co-star, Matt Smith, despite winning a
Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild awards for the role. Matt
Smith did not receive any such accolades for his role in the show.
Though it was never actually disclosed how much Smith had been
paid, when the news of the pay disparity broke it was
reported that Netflix and the producers of the
Crown agreed to pay Foy $363,000 in back pay. These prominent and
recent examples of wage disparity remind us that, despite jokingly
being referred to as the 'fairer' sex,
