Beyonce: Gender Equality 'Isn't A Reality Yet'
Her latest video album may have some question her feminist stance, but Beyonce proves in an essay that her women empowerment advocacy goes way beyond her hit songs.
The "Single Ladies" singer contributes a short essay as part of The Shriver Report, a multi-platform nonprofit media initiative led by journalist Maria Shriver.
In her essay entitled Gender Equality Is A Myth!, Queen Bey writes that women, in this day and age, is still far from the gender equality that they desire for years.
"We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet," Beyonce writes as she begins her essay.
She went on to the hard facts -- in the United States, more than half of the workforce is comprised by women, yet they get only 77 percent of what men receive. The mother to two-year-old Blue Ivy also writes that men have to demand that their female family members earn more, in proportion to their skills and not with their gender.
"Equality will be achieved when men and women are granted equal pay and equal respect," she writes further.
Beyonce also writes that since old attitudes of gender bias are drilled onto us ever since we are young, it is important that the rules of gender equality is taught to them early on.
"We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up, gender equality becomes a natural way of life. And we have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible."
Queen Bey is just one of the celebrities who contributed their work to the special report. Eva Longoria, Hillary Clinton and Jada Pinkett-Smith also their works published in the report. LeBron James also contributed an essay which honors the American working single mothers, including his mother Gloria.