Cripes! The best BBC foreign reporter by far is quitting her role at the BBC...
Ironically, the gender pay gap row may largely be a myth but there are, apparently, still a very small number of major employers out there paying women less than men for doing the same job. And the right-on BBC is one of them.
Best wishes Carrie! If you want to write for Is the BBC biased and misogynistic? you know where we are! (We're lacking a China editor).
Update: This post has been edited. Carrie hasn't quitted the BBC, as I originally wrote. She's merely quitted her job as China editor. She's staying with the BBC and says she'll return to the BBC newsroom if they give her the same inflated salary as her male colleagues. (The 'inflated' bit is my addition).
Further Update: Carrie has written about the "crisis of trust" at the BBC tonight at The Spectator. (Yes, not the New Statesman). It's a long and compelling whinge. ("Mine is just one story of inequality among many", she writes.)
I don't like popcorn but I'm stuffing it in tonight regardless.
Oh, and BBC watchdog Samira is 'standing' with Carrie...
Well, it may not actually be happening to you, but it does seem to be happening to BBC women.
Yes, it's tempting to quote one of the BBC's greatest sitcom characters, namely Battery Sergeant Major Williams, but we should surely all stand with Carrie. 'Inflated salaries for all at the BBC!' 'Je suis Carrie!' (P.S. In Chinese, according to the infallible Google Translate, that's 我是嘉莉。). A judge-led public inquiry is surely needed.
Oh, and here comes Kirsty...
And now to bed, feeling positively pregnant with popcorn...
