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Mila Kunis pens essay slamming workplace sexism

Mila Kunis pens essay slamming workplace sexism

Actress Mila Kunis has written an essay slamming sexism in the workplace and detailing her own experiences of it.

The essay, titled ‘You’ll Never Work In This Town Again…’ and published on Aplus.com, she recalls the first time she stuck up to objectification at work.

“Producer threatened [me] when I refused to pose semi-naked on the cover of a men's magazine to promote our film,” she writes. “I was no longer willing to subject myself to a naïve compromise that I had previously been willing to.

“I was livid, I felt objectified, and for the first time in my career I said: ‘No’. And guess what? The world didn't end. The film made a lot of money and I did work in this town again, and again, and again. What this producer may never realise is that he spoke aloud the exact fear every woman feels when confronted with gender bias in the workplace.”  

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