Michelle Williams won an Emmy for best actress in a limited series or a movie, and she used her speech to bring attention to the gender pay gap.

“Thank you so much to FX and Fox 21 Studios for supporting me completely and paying me equally because they understood that when you put value into a person, it empowers that person to get in touch with their own inherent value,” she said. “And then where do they put that value? They put it into her work.”

Then Michelle continued to champion pay equality for women of color.

“So the next time a woman, and especially a woman of color, because she stands to make 52 cents on the dollar compared to her white male counterpart, tells you what she needs in order to do her job, listen to her, believe her,” she said.

“Because one day she might stand in front of you and say thank you for allowing her to succeed because of her workplace environment and not in spite of it.”