High-profile presenters and journalists took photos of themselves, sometimes with a male colleague, holding pictures of “=” signs and calling for equal pay on the day when, because of the gender pay gap, women in the UK effectively begin to work for free until the end of the year. Grazia UK (@GraziaUK) Agatha the terrifying Hibernation Consultant is doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to close the gender pay gap. Montague said the BBC gender pay gap was unfair and professionally damaging after it was revealed that she earned less than £150,000, while fellow presenter John Humphrys was paid between £600,000 and £649,000. Co-presenter Mishal Husain tweeted a picture of herself holding the same symbol adding: “Closing the gender pay gap is about equality. It should matter to everyone.”Mishal Husain (@MishalHusainBBC) Closing the gender pay gap is about equality.

Source: The Guardian November 10, 2017 14:49 UTC