Exclusive: Jonita Gandhi Opens Up About Pay Disparity In Music Industry: “Now I Politely Decline…”

Jonita Gandhi spoke about the difference in treatment in the music industry. Read here for more.

There is pay disparity across industries, and the only difference now is that the women have started to speak up for this. The recent Male Feminist episode was graced by singer Jonita Gandhi and she spoke about the pay disparity in the industry. Jonita expressed shock at learning about the vast difference between her pay check with that of her male singer. Read our exclusive to know more.

Jonita Gandhi On Pay Disparity

When The Male Feminist host Siddhaarth Aalambayan asked Jonita Gandhi about the different treatment of male and females in the music industry, she said, “Ya, I think I didn’t notice that in the beginning. Initially, I thought it was just my shortcomings, if I was treated differently, I thought I did not deserve it. It took me a while to see that there was discrepancy.”

Elaborating on the same, Jonita Gandhi said, “There was a couple of things happening, I realised there was a male singer who was kind of as established as me, and they aree going with a male for a brand project for instance, instead of me. There was no reason except that they were not girls. People here are more interested in following the words of a man.” Talking about the pay disparity, Jonita Gandhi said, “I would find out later, that me and other person are in same project, and it would randomly come out in a conversation that they earned this much. And I was like What??”

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When Siddhaarth Aalambayan further inquired about an approximate disparity in the fee and asked Jonita if she was hypothetically earning Rs 100 for a project, how much would a man earn? The singer without any hesitation said, “10x more”.

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Jonita Gandhi also said that she politely declines offers where she feels that she is not getting paid enough. Watch the entire episode here.

First Published: June 13, 2025 6:36 PM