Should women turn off the BBC? It’s a provocative question, but did you think it, even for a second, when the gender pay gap at the national broadcaster became apparent last week, after the corporation revealed the salaries of their top 96 earners?
While the top earning men were on salaries around the £2 million mark, the highest earning (and most primetime) woman, Claudia Winkleman, was on just a quarter of that. The list was two-thirds male.
Other women on the list (Mishal Husain, for example) earned far less than their male counterparts, for doing exactly the same job. And then there were those big female names #notonthelist. Sarah Montague, Emily Maitlis, Jane Garvey, Louise Minchin, Jenni Murray. Women who feature large in our media, but far less in the…
