Across New Zealand, the gender pay gap still sits at just over 9 per cent. This is one of those very few occasions where Hollywood issues are not that far off the issues a lot of us face in our daily lives. Earlier this year, Jennifer Lawrence said she knew she’d always be paid less than her male co-starts “because of my vagina”. The good news is that more and more women with a platform are speaking up about the gender pay gap in their industries. The same system that enables that producer to get away with that response also conditions women to feel bad about demanding what they are worth, to even bring up the topic with their bosses or managers. She didn’t want to be mean to the guy who told her to “f*** off” when she dared suggest maybe she should get paid the same as her male co-star. She talked about how “terrible” and “embarrassed” she felt for even bringing up the issue of pay with the producer and, even to this day, she decided not to name him because she “didn’t want to be mean”. This time, however, something else stood out from Miller’s quotes on the topic. Sad, but I walked away,” she told Vogue at the time. If it was two men, it wouldn’t probably happen. “It was a play with just two of us on stage and I was offered less than half of what he was going to be paid. In 2020, she revealed that fellow actor Chadwick Boseman took money from his own salary on 21 Bridges to boost her pay to the number she had asked for.īack in 2015, Miller turned down a return to Broadway because of, again, gender pay gap issues. In 2010–2011, her research is also supported by an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.This is not the first time the Anatomy of a Scandal star has shone a spotlight on pay inequity in her industry. She is the author of Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism (University of Illinois Press, 2007) and has published articles in 19th-Century Music, American Music, Ethnomusicology, the Journal of American Folklore, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and Game Studies. Miller earned a PhD in music (ethnomusicology) from Harvard University in 2005. This project explores how emerging forms of virtual performance are changing practitioners’ concepts of musicality, creativity, and embodiment. The book includes case studies on Grand Theft Auto, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and music pedagogy on YouTube.

During her Radcliffe fellowship year, Miller will be completing a book titled Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance (under contract, Oxford University Press).

Her current research investigates new modes of musical experience made possible by interactive digital media. Kiri Miller is the Manning Assistant Professor of Music at Brown University.

This information is accurate as of the fellowship year indicated for each fellow.

Traveling Home by Kiri Miller