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"Girls may run the world, according to Beyonce, but the Grammy winner doesn&amp;apos;t think they get properly compensated for it. The 32-year-old mother of daughter Blue Ivy Carter, 2, recently penned a personal essay for Maria Shriver&amp;apos;s website The Shriver Report on the topic.&amp;#xA0;\r\nThe site focuses on feminist issues and &amp;quot;seeks to modernize America&amp;apos;s relationship to women.&amp;quot; On Jan. 12, Bey&amp;apos;s essay, titled &amp;quot;Gender Equality Is a Myth!&amp;quot;, was posted on the site.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nUsing the byline Beyonce Knowles-Carter, the &amp;quot;Diva&amp;quot; singer wrote a little more than 200 words on the issue, which she explores to greater lengths in her smash fifth album. She declared that gender equality, &amp;quot;isn&amp;apos;t a reality yet,&amp;quot; and asked both men and women to stand up for progress.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;Men have to demand that their wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters earn more -- commensurate with their qualifications and not their gender,&amp;quot; Beyonce wrote. &amp;quot;Equality will be achieved when men and women are granted equal pay and equal respect.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\nJay Z&amp;apos;s wife of nearly six years went on to talk about the history behind America&amp;apos;s lack of gender equality.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Why are we viewed as less than equal? These old attitudes are drilled into us from the very beginning,&amp;quot; she wrote. &amp;quot;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.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\nThe iTunes record breaker has explored and promoted female empowerment in such hits as &amp;quot;Independent Women (Part One),&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Run the World (Girls),&amp;quot; &amp;quot;***Flawless,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;If I Were a Boy,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Irreplaceable,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Grown Woman.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\nHer new song &amp;quot;***Flawless&amp;quot; off her hit self-titled fifth studio album, Beyonce features a voiceover from Nigerian feminist author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;We say to girls, &amp;apos;You can have ambition but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful otherwise you&amp;apos;re reflecting the man,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; Adichie says in the song.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;Everything she said is exactly how I feel,&amp;quot; Beyonce said of Adichie in Part 2 of her mini-documentary about the groundbreaking album.&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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