Meryl Streep at the 87th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep believes that "every day is a compromise" for working women and there is a constant sense of guilt, reported
Female First.
The 66-year-old
Into The Woods star, who has brought up children Mamie, Grace, Louisa and Henry with husband Don Gummer while successfully balancing her award-winning career, admitted that she sometimes feels a sense of guilt.
"Every day is some kind of compromise if you're a working woman. There's a different set of expectations, and there's a guilt that's self-generated and condoned in the larger society. In every profession, men are held to a completely different standard of parenthood," she said.
The
Devil Wears Prada actress also confessed that she feels a sense of responsibility when it comes to choosing what roles to accept as it does have an impact in the society.
"We all have a responsibility for what we put out in the world. I do think that. I mean, unless you're really, really struggling and you have to do something you don't believe in. That's economic necessity," she said.
"But somebody like me, who can make some choices, I don't know what to do with it, the responsibility. But I feel it," she added.