{"id":48306,"date":"2018-10-25T11:16:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T10:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48306"},"modified":"2018-10-25T11:16:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T10:16:22","slug":"bbc-failed-to-fix-gender-pay-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bbc-failed-to-fix-gender-pay-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC failed to fix gender pay gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5137\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BBC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"479\" \/>A group of British lawmakers says the BBC has failed to live up to its duty to pay men and women the same for equal work \u2014 a damning indictment after year of pay scandals.<br \/>\nParliament\u2019s media committee said Thursday that BBC salaries are set by \u201can opaque system of discretionary decisions by individual managers.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"alignleft quote-simple \"><p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script> <!-- Automatic size Responsive --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1234237307185872\" data-ad-slot=\"7381563475\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins> <script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BBC has been struggling to address the issue, which was highlighted when Carrie Gracie quit her post as China editor to protest the company\u2019s gender pay gap. The BBC later accepted it had underpaid her and agreed to donate back pay to a gender equality charity.<br \/>\nThe committee also branded the broadcaster a \u201cdisgrace\u201d for pushing staff to work as independent contractors through personal service companies, leaving some facing six-figure bills for unpaid taxes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bbc-failed-to-fix-gender-pay-gap\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of British lawmakers says the BBC has failed to live up to its duty to pay men and women the same for equal work \u2014 a damning indictment after year of pay scandals. Parliament\u2019s media committee said Thursday that BBC salaries are set by \u201can opaque system of discretionary decisions by individual managers.\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"British lawmakers say","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48307,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48306\/revisions\/48307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}