Jack White gives impassioned speech on gender equality

Jack White has been appointed to a new 45-member Council on Gender Equality in the Nashville metro area.

The Mayor of Nashville, Megan Barry, announced the news and the council's purpose will be to study gender equality in the region and report back on its findings.

The rocker made a speech at a press conference about his new role and said: "In my life in the arts, I've always considered it unfair when, for example, while producing a record, that a drummer would be less than a singer simply because that singer had an agent or representative.”

"I think they should be paid the same. Now wouldn't it be just as ridiculous to pay two fiddle players a different wage because one of them is male and one of them is female? I think so."

"Nothing is more important than a new life and new soul being brought into the world, and newborn parents should not have to worry about anything but the health and welfare of their child. If my small company can enact these ideas, then so can McDonald’s and General Motors. I believe all human being in this planet and in this society we live in deserve to be treated the same."

Watch an interview with Jack White below: