From Big Little Lies to Michelle Williams and the women of the BBC, the conversation around the gender pay gap doesn’t look like it’s going away any time soon.

Pay inequality isn’t just an issue in the entertainment and media worlds: women in all industries are consistently paid less than their male counterparts. Which makes it refreshing (if not frustratingly rare) that one CEO has tried to do something about it – by taking a pay cut of his own.

Johan Lundgren, CEO of easyJet since December 2017, took his job with a salary of £740,000 – now reduced to £706,00, the amount his predecessor Carolyn McCall was making.

McCall is also being paid less than a male predecessor at her new job as chief executive at ITV. She earns £41,000 less than Adam Crozier, who filled the role before her.

Lundgren said easyJet was “committed” to providing equal pay and equal opportunity.

“I want that to apply to everybody at easyJet and to show my personal commitment I have asked the board to reduce my pay to match that of Carolyn’s when she was at easyJet,” he said.

This CEO cut his salary to match his female predecessor