TV actors and writers are using an anonymous Google database to compare their salaries

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The separate databases, which include information about race and gender, aim to help improve salary equality. "Please help us achieve parity by sharing any info you are willing to. Thanks!!" reads the writers database, which is currently public. (The actors database is private.) Women in Film founder Melissa Silverstein, who shared the Google Doc on Tuesday, told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month: "For women in Hollywood, the system was created to isolate them from each other and to pit them against one another. Women are taking back the power by sharing the information in a way that has never been done before."