Female Actors Are Calling Out E! Over The Gender Pay Gap During Interviews On E!

The Golden Globes red carpet is a sea of black today as Hollywood stars call for an end to mistreatment of women in the industry as part of the Time’s Up movement.

Almost all of the stars attending the awards are dressed head-to-toe in black in solidarity with victims of abuse, harassment and intimidation, and several stars are wearing #TimesUp badges.

Join us in saying #TIMESUP to the world. #WHYWEWEARBLACK pic.twitter.com/s2V5OSnEpj

— TIME'S UP (@TIMESUPNOW) January 6, 2018

"Hollywood handmaids" take a stand at the #GoldenGlobes https://t.co/zxoIAGm1bW #TheHandmaidsTale pic.twitter.com/L8XxenHfk7

— Variety (@Variety) January 7, 2018

A number of stars, including Emma Watson and Michelle Williams, have also brought as their guests women who spurred and supported the #MeToo movement before and after allegations of sexual abuse against Harvey Weinstein set off a chain reaction of powerful Hollywood men being called to account for inappropriate behaviour.

Emma Watson at the #GoldenGlobes with activist Marai Larasi, who said: "If we are to end violence against women and girls, we need to create seismic shifts across our social norms.” https://t.co/q7BpRehYrC pic.twitter.com/nmBTAdRNmO

— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) January 7, 2018

I love that every time Seacrest tried to talk about Michelle Williams' #GoldenGlobes nom, she kept turning it back to Tarana Burke, her date who started the #MeToo movement. Then she said this: pic.twitter.com/8dUBEoS5BZ

— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) January 7, 2018

Perhaps the most striking moment of the red carpet, which is hosted by E!, was when Laura Dern and Debra Messing called out the network for not paying female presenters as much as men.

E! has been under fire since high profile host Catt Sadler left the network after learning she was paid around half as much as her male co-host, Jason Kennedy.

Messing was the first actress to call out E!, saying she was “so shocked to hear that E! doesn’t believe in paying their female co-hosts the same as their male co-hosts. I miss Catt Sadler… and we stand with her.”

Here's @DebraMessing being the MESSINGEST (compliment!) calling out E! for the @IAmCattSadler equal pay disaster on the #ERedCarpet. #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/h8ZLuawyOg

— Kate Aurthur (@KateAurthur) January 7, 2018

Next up was Laura Dern.

“We need the powers that be and all the industries and all the networks and E! to help us with closing this pay gender gap. 50/50 by 2020,” she told E! host Ryan Seacrest.

Laura Dern also calls out E! — while on E! — for not paying its male and female employees the same salary pic.twitter.com/c0zlsCQHn8

— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) January 8, 2018

With the ceremony just getting underway, you can bet the red carpet won’t be the last we hear about #MeToo and the Harvey Weinstein moment today.