(CNN)For the second year in a row Hollywood's leading women let fly a clarion call, setting the industry to rights. Following Cate Blanchett's remarks last year, in which the Best Actress winner excoriated the industry for its focus of male-centric filmmaking, Best Supporting Actress winner Patricia Arquette rounded on America's attitude to gender inequality. Reading from a prepared speech Arquette dedicated her award to "every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation. We have fought for everybody else's equal rights, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all, and equal rights for women in the United States of America."
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Arquette took to the stage and criticized the lack of gender equality in America
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Data shows women are both underrepresented and underpaid in Hollywood
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Women took only 12% of leading roles in Hollywood last year
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Women also underrepresented in minor roles, with age demographics still skewed towards the young
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