Gender Equality: Patricia Arquette’s Speech Cost Her Jobs

Patricia Arquette is a dedicated activist, with years of struggle behind her, but her most effective effort may have been her shortest. In accepting the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2015, she spoke out from the podium demanding equal pay and equal rights for women. Political speeches at the Oscars are nothing new, but Arquette’s 20-second cri de coeur may have done more to change the world than all the paeans and pleas at all the Academy Awards before her. Read More…