NEWSNIGHT host Emily Maitlis has revealed she went “on strike” after she discovered other male presenters were paid more than her.
They included Jeremy Vine, who got a bigger salary despite doing the same job during key news events, such as the corporation’s election coverage.
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Maitlis, 48, told the Daily Mail: “I knew that, for example, Jeremy Vine and I were literally doing the same job. I was standing in front of a touch screen, he was in front of a screen and we
were doing the same job with the same preparation. Yet there was a massive disparity in salaries.
“A colleague on the team said: ‘You’ve got to sort this out.’ And I went in and tried, and I got told it couldn’t be sorted out.
“I went on strike, actually. I was like: ‘I’m just going to quietly stay away until you sort out the contract, because it seemed like a more efficient way of doing things. I never made a big deal of it, never told anyone, it was just between me and them.”
Maitlis’s salary has now increased from below £150,000 to £229,999, making her the joint highest-paid woman at BBC News.
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