Oh Progress, You Elusive Beast

By Elizabeth Shore

You remember maybe six monthsor so ago, when actress Jennifer Lawrence spoke out about the gender pay disparity in Hollywood and how much less she and her female counterparts makecompared with the guys? She wrote an impactful essay about it,acknowledging that while the men with whom she worked negotiated powerful deals for themselves, she worried about being viewed as “spoiled” or “difficult” in similarsituations so she, in her words, gave up on the negotiations too early....