BBC Women Demand Action to Close Pay Gap With Men<br />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<br />that has angered many, including some of the BBC’s most talented female employees.<br />In the letter, they asked Mr. Hall to meet with them, writing: “You have said<br />that you will ‘sort’ the gender pay gap by 2020, but the BBC has known about the pay disparity for years.<br />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<br />that the corporation “act now” to eliminate the disparity.<br />Forty-two women signed an open letter to their employer demanding immediate action to close the gender pay gap.<br />We all want to go on the record to call upon you to act now.”<br />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.”<br />The BBC on Wednesday revealed for the first time the salaries of stars earning over £150,000, about $195,000.
