Bollywood today but she cannot ignore the yawning pay gap in the film industry between the male stars and the leading ladies. When she was felicitated at the Outlooks Business Women of Worth recently, she said, “There is a situation and there’s no running away from it. But I feel that there is too much emphasis on the pay gap in Bollywood. I look into the situation and instead of whining about it, I look at how different things were earlier and how the situation has improved already,” Having always stressed that she has grown up in a household where her mother has been a strong support to her father (badminton ace Prakash Padukone), Deepika said, “Fortunately, there has never been this gender disparity in my growing up years. I’d like to believe that a man has the same sort of role in a woman’s life and her career.”

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