The singer reveals her point of view in an essay for The Shriver Report

Jan 14, 2014 15:55 GMT  ·  By

Beyonce is one of the most popular artists in the world today and her fans number in the millions. Which is why it will be interesting to watch whether her recent position on gender equality will actually spark some tangible results in the near future.

The artist wrote an insightful essay for “The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink,” where she highlights some of the most important problems women have to face today, as part of the gender equality issue.

She writes, “[The] average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change,” alluding that a future without equality between men and women is not possible.

She stresses the importance of instilling in our children the notion of equality between the two genders, “We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up, gender equality becomes a natural way of life. And we have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.”

These words find some strange parallels in the lyrics to her songs for the past years. She's expressed her struggle for independence with titles such as “Bills, Bills, Bills” or “Independent Women.”

The singer goes on to point some other statistics in today's society, like the fact that women constitute more than 50 percent of the population and more than 50 percent of the voters and she urged that those women be given “100 per cent of the opportunities.”

She concluded that “We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet.” Her take on the matter is sure to cause some uproar among the legions of her fans, but will they actually put some of her teachings into practice? It remains to be seen.

Meanwhile, Beyonce wasn't the only celebrity that lent her voice to the report. She was joined by Actress Eva Longoria who wrote a piece about “Empowering Latinas” and basketball player LeBron James who took up writing to show his appreciation of the nation's working mothers.