VIDEO : Salma Hayek Refuses to Turn a Blind Eye to Racial And Gender Stereotypes

Salma Hayek is not just one of Hollywood?s most accomplished stars and the only Mexican-American to have received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress ? she?s a longtime activist. And she is not about to sit still in the wake of rising racial and gender tensions in the US. Hayek told Fusion?s Jorge Ramos in an interview, ?The greatest fights in life are the fights you take not for yourself, but for others. Women are paid less than men, and Latina women are the ones who are the least paid in comparison; they are paid 50% of what a man makes,? she said. ?Right now, we are not even at the point where we can prove our value because there aren?t enough movies that have female leads in them.?