Some of the BBC’s most high-profile female personalities have demanded the corporation tackle its gender pay gap immediately, after this week’s revelations about unequal pay between men and women.
Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis, Today programme hosts Mishal Husain and Sarah Montague, journalist and host of her own show Victoria Derbyshire and presenter Clare Balding among those who have signed an open letter to director general Tony Hall.
In it, the group say that many have suspected “for years” that women and men at the Beeb are not treated equally but called on the Beeb to sort the issue “now” rather than by Hall’s self-imposed 2020 timescale.