Movie veteran Jane Fonda has been accused of not living up to her feminist credentials by failing to pay female employees on her radio network Fonda and co-founder of radio network Green Stone Media, Gloria Steinem, have been blasted for "putting their own reputations above their female employees' finances," reports New York gossip column PageSix. A source claims the duo is "refusing to pay severance, and the founders won't file for bankruptcy protection because it would publicly embarrass Jane and Gloria." A spokesperson for Fonda says, "This is pure speculation. There is no foundation to the accusations and the staff has been informed throughout."Fonda rose to stardom throughout the 1960s and 70s starring in films such as Barbarella, Klute and Coming Home. Kluta and Coming Home earned the actress and Oscar.But she is as well known for her political activism as she is for her acting during the 1960s she supported the Civil Rights Movement which opposed the Vietnam War. She travelled to Vietnam in 1972 and many criticised this, and the comments she made about American prisoner or war being 'hypocrites and liars', as unpatriotic and treason.

Fonda has also been a big supporter of feminist causes taking part in a march in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in a bid to get officials to investigate the hundreds of murders of women in the city.

She set up the Jane Fonda Centre for Adolescent Reproductive Health in 2001, a centre which tries to prevent teenage pregnancy.

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