On this being about more than money

“I didn’t ask for pay rises, I only asked for equality. This is damaging the credibility of the BBC in a completely unacceptable way.”

“I feel very angry about what [BBC managers] have put some other people through, I feel angry about some of the things I’ve seen and heard [from] some of the women and the suffering they have gone through. It’s not funny. All of these women have been underpaid, for years, some decades.”

“My case is just an example of the bigger problem. If the BBC can’t sort it out for me – for me, a senior person of 55 in a powerful position – then how can it sort it out for more vulnerable people who don’t have a public profile? That’s my concern.”

“I could leave the BBC tomorrow and get a better paid job. I don’t want to leave it in this state. It is in deep trouble and we need to sort it out and I need to be there alongside the other great BBC women, helping the BBC to sort it out.”

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