Deepika Padukone on gender pay gap: It's OK to fight for it.

Gender pay gap has become a raging issue
in the entertainment industry and
Bollywood star Deepika Padukone says
women should no longer settle for less and
demand what they deserve. The actor, who
attended the Time 100 Gala in New York on
Tuesday night, spoke to TIME magazine
about developing the confidence as a
woman to ask for better pay.
Deepika, star of films like "Padmaavat",
"Piku" and Hollywood film "xXx: Return of
Xander Cage", said women for long have
been made to question their worth but
there is a shift now. "You can feel a sense of
it? Am I stepping over the line, do I deserve
it? But if you believe you deserve it, then you
do. For years, we've been made to feel we
should be OK with settling for less, with
sometimes a promise of getting something
more later on."
"But I think you should get what you think
you deserve. It's OK to fight for it, and it's OK
to feel uncomfortable initially, because that's
just the way we've been made to feel for so
long," she added.
Deepika, 32, who features in 2018 TIME 100
list as one of the world's most influential
people, said. She was hailed as a global star
in her TIME profie by her "xXx" co-star Vin
Diesel.

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