The 32-year-old singer has written a outspoken essay for Maria Shriver's "Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink," in which she argues the case for gender equality in America by promoting equal pay in the workforce.
"We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes," revealed Mrs. Carter. "But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change. Men have to demand that their wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters earn more - commensurate with their qualifications and not their gender. Equality will be achieved when men and women are granted equal pay and equal respect."
The track "Flawless" proclaims: "We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much," taken from a speech by the Orange prize-winning author.
The Shriver Report is a study that journalist Shriver publishes alongside the Center for American Progress, with previous guest commentators including Hillary Clinton, LeBron James, Jada Pinkett Smith and Sheryl Sandberg. The full report is downloadable for free until Jan. 15.
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