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I would say that, while the BBC salary thing is obviously concerning, it’s also a bad example for the general case.
by matthewmacleod 9y ago
I would say that, while the BBC salary thing is obviously concerning, it’s also a bad example for the general case.
- andy_ppp 9y agoIt’s a datapoint clearly demonstrating that women aren’t paid the same as men for the same work. I’m not sure you couldn’t dismiss every example so trivially.
- zimablue 9y agoThe entertainment industry is one of the worst possible places to look to try and define "same work". You can easily have two people sat next to eachother where the audience wouldn't care if one was replaced but would leave if the other was. It's like saying musicians should all be paid the same. I'm left wing and feminist as they come but this gender pay gap narrative is so consistently misrepresented it drives me mad. We're slipping into a society where all professions have quotas because everyone is terrified of a false narrative.
- hyperdunc 9y agoAre you sure about that? I couldn't find any information showing that men and women were paid differently for the same work.
- andy_ppp 9y agoYou probably don't know what each of the people does; someone like Emily Maitlis who earns < £150k - her co-host who does the exact same job earns up to £299k. My guess the man here doing identical jobs earns about twice as much. There are many examples of this in the released information.