BBC editor Carrie Gracie (Carrie Gracie/ twitter) BBC editor Carrie Gracie (Carrie Gracie/ twitter)Carrie Gracie, the China editor for Britain’s public broadcaster the BBC, has resigned from her post in Beijing due to pay disparities with her male colleagues, according to an open letter she wrote. The BBC has come under fire recently for paying male employees more and has pledged to close the gender gap by 2020. The BBC had four international editors, two men and two women, of which she was one, she said. “The BBC must admit the problem, apologise and set in place an equal, fair and transparent pay structure,” she said, calling for an independent arbitration to settle individual cases at the broadcaster. The BBC cited a BBC spokeswoman as saying that “fairness in pay” at the corporation is “vital”, and that an audit of pay for rank and file staff led by an independent judge found there was “no systemic discrimination against women”.

Source: Indian Express January 08, 2018 05:24 UTC