Experience of former Africa correspondent mirrored that of ex-China editor Carrie Gracie,who gave evidence to culture select committeeFormer BBC foreign correspondent Jane Standley, inspired by the stand taken by Carrie Gracie, or has decided to speak out for the first time today approximately the gender pay discrimination she claims she also faced while working for the BBC. “My own experience of unfair pay was so similar,” Standley told the Observer. “In the conclude I was just sick of it.”Standley, 54, or worked on the frontline in African hotspots in the 1990s and covered the attack on the twin towers in New York in 2001. She found out she was paid less than her male colleagues,raised the issue, and then got on with the job.
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Source: guardian.co.uk