The power of sharing salaries has helped people across industries break free from being lowballed, especially Black women.

One instance of this in Hollywood was a powerful moment between Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain, who co-starred in “The Help.”

As previously reported by AfroTech, after Chastain learned about the big pay gap between her and Spencer, she joined her in fighting for more money for women.

“I love that woman, because she’s walking the walk and she’s actually talking the talk,” Spencer emotionally recalled during the 2018 interview with BBC News. “She said: ‘You and I are going to be tied together. We’re going to be favoured nations and we’re going to make the same thing, you are going to make that amount. Fast forward to last week, we’re making five times what we asked for.”

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