BBC Women Demand Action to Close Pay Gap With Men
While many Britons criticized the high salaries, the list also showed a significant disparity in the salaries received by women, men and minorities in general at the British broadcaster — a pay gap
that has angered many, including some of the BBC’s most talented female employees.
In the letter, they asked Mr. Hall to meet with them, writing: “You have said
that you will ‘sort’ the gender pay gap by 2020, but the BBC has known about the pay disparity for years.
On Sunday, in an open letter signed by 42 of them to the BBC director general, Tony Hall, and published in The Sunday Times of London and other news outlets, they demanded
that the corporation “act now” to eliminate the disparity.
Forty-two women signed an open letter to their employer demanding immediate action to close the gender pay gap.
We all want to go on the record to call upon you to act now.”
They wrote that the report confirmed a long-held suspicion that “women at the BBC are being paid less than men for the same work.”
The BBC on Wednesday revealed for the first time the salaries of stars earning over £150,000, about $195,000.
