An ugly pay gap at the BBC

What more can be done to close the gender pay gap so awkwardly exposed at the BBC? Emily Hohler reports.

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Last week the BBC was thrust into the "awkward" and "unflattering" position of "reporting on itself", says the Financial Times. Disclosure of pay, obligatory under its new Royal Charter Agreement, revealed that only a third of its highest-paid staff are women; that the seven highest earners are all men, and that the highest-paid man (Chris Evans on £2.2m) earned around four times more than the best-paid woman (Claudia Winkleman). "For a public corporation that often investigates inequality in business and government, these are ugly headlines."

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.