Time to switch off these whingeing Beeb-ettes
WHERE are we with the BBC gender pay gap now? Not at a pretty juncture.
Carrie Gracie, the BBC’s former China editor who has resigned over the issue, blew a fuse over her employer’s report this week, which concluded there was no systemic gender bias at the Beeb.
BBC women, with Carrie at their head, claim the report is a whitewash, even though it was compiled by independent accountants.
All this frenzied fuss seems to have resulted in more women getting more money and a lot of men getting less money. If that’s what equality and feminism have achieved, I want nothing to do with it.
Carrie Gracie now seems unreasonable — and loving her moment in the spotlight a little too much.
Why is she still there — I thought she had resigned? Perhaps she can work anywhere she wants and will turn up on The Archers next. Or get a job clearing the ham sandwiches off Jeremy Vine’s desk, so that any vegan guests on his Radio 2 show won’t be mortally offended.
If these women hate the BBC so much and find the management so despicably fraudulent and untrustworthy, then they should take their plummy, dulcet tones, their sense of entitlement, their pension pots and reheated grievances and go get a job in the real world, where reading out typed sheets of double-spaced news paragraphs does not carry a premium — or mean a cushy position for life. I’d like to be supportive of the Beeb-ettes, I really would, but this is a complicated problem that can’t be solved overnight to everyone’s satisfaction.
The better solution would be to work together, instead of huffing.