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When Sony was hacked by North Korea, the leaked payroll revealed women were paid less than men for the same job. I'm not sure what the ramifications of that leak were though.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/12/sony-pictures-hack-...

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What that article says is that one woman with the same job title as a man makes 1 million dollars less than the man. I doubt that's just a fixed salary, so it's hard to say how damning it is.

It also says that a spreadsheet from 2004 states that 85% of the top earners were men. This is unrelated to the pay gap argument.

The rest of the article is fluff completely unrelated to the leak. I'm no surprised there were no ramifications from this. If this is all that was found, it pretty much says there's no or practically no pay gap at Sony.

Here are a few more articles talking about actors/actresses' salaries (the second one is mostly reiterating the first):

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/12/sony-email-hack...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/28/george-clooney-...

I mean, it's hard to say whether two different actors really perform the same job; speaking for myself the only name I recognize in that article is Christian Bale's. Plus presumably they all have representatives that negotiate their cuts, so if they agreed to work for that amount, I don't think there's much room to complain. Finally, I can't really tell if there's a trend here. The article talks about the cases of three men and three women, where all three women are paid smaller cuts than the men, but is this the case for everyone else as well?

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