.BelfastMovie & Outlander_STARZ's Caitríona Balfe on gender inequality: 'If you want to have a family at all, you end up stepping off that ladder & I think it’s very hard for them to come back in. That’s something we need to address as an industry.'
star Caitríona Balfe says becoming a mom helped her see how differently men and women are treated in the film industry and that her own understanding of gender inequality has changed since welcoming the 3-month-old son she shares with husband Tony McGill.
“By the time you get to a certain age, if you want to have a family at all, you end up stepping off that ladder and I think it’s very hard for them to come back in,” Balfe toldin a January 6 interview. “That’s something we need to address as an industry because I look at our camera crew, all amazing guys, all of them have become fathers in the eight years we’ve been filming, but not one of them has had to give up their position.