Yahoo LifestyleBeyoncé pens a feminist essay, claiming gender equality is a 'myth'
The 32-year-old has taken up the issue of unfair wages for women in the workplace
Not content with being a singer, actress, dancer, wife, mother and all-round Superwoman, Beyoncé can now add essayist to her very impressive CV.
The 32-year-old artist has penned a piece on a subject close to her heart, the issue of unequal pay for women.
In an impassioned piece entitled, ‘Gender Equality is a myth!’ Queen Bey dismantles the notion that we have achieved any semblance of equality between the sexes thanks to a significant disparity between the wages that men and women are paid.
Writing under the pen name Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, she explains: ‘Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.’
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The former Destiny’s Child front woman calls for men as well as women to stand up and demand that these double standards change.
‘Equality will be achieved when men and women are granted equal pay and equal respect.’
Her essay appears in The Shriver Report – a non-profit initiative that ‘seeks to modernize America’s relationship to women’ - headed up by Maria Shriver, member of the Kennedy family and former partner of action star Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Beyoncé isn’t the only star to feature in the report as fellow celebs Eva Longoria and Jada Pinkett-Smith have also spoken out about the issues facing women today.
They’re in good company too as businesswoman Sheryl Sandberg and politician Hillary Rodham Clinton have both contributed their wealth of knowledge and wisdom to the feminist report.
This isn't the first time Bey has spoken out on behalf of women. She headlined the Chime for Change concert in London last June, an event to support health, eduction and justice for women everywhere.
To read the whole report, including essays from Beyoncé, Eva and Jada, download it for free from Amazon.
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