Fences’ actress Viola Davis has called for an end in the pay gap between women of color and white actresses in Hollywood.

Read on to see what Viola Davis is requesting from Hollywood and how it should be approached…

The pay gap between women of color and white actresses has gone on too long.

CelebNMusic247.com reports that Viola Davis has been watching with interest as the industry’s gender pay gap has been tackled by some of the industry’s leading ladies.

So far, Hollywood has fixed the issues with their top money-making female leads such as Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, and Ruth Wilson, but Viola Davis wants more change.

Viola Davis insists is the time for the disparity in earnings between actors of the different ethnicity to be addressed.

Davis told Variety:

There are no percentages to show the difference. It’s vast. Hispanic women, Asian women, black women, we don’t get paid what Caucasian women get paid. We just don’t … We have the talent. It’s the opportunity that we’re lacking.

The 53-year-old star says:

We’re not even invited to the table. I go to a lot of women’s events here in Hollywood, and they’re filled with female CEOs, producers, and executives, but I’m one of maybe five or six people of color in the room.

She also pointed out that she wants to address how Hollywood makes black women change their hair instead allowing them to embrace their natural look.

You’re always taught as a person of color to not like your hair. The kinkier it is, the so-called nappier it is, the uglier it is. We’re into a zeitgeist where people are fighting for their space to be seen. People have to know that there are different types of women of color. We’re not all Foxy Brown. We’re not all brown or light-skinned beauties with a big Afro. We have the girl next door. We have the older, dark-skinned, natural-haired woman.