Carrie Gracie appreciation thread

[QuentinSummers]

I heard Carrie on woman's hour at the start of the year talking about equal pay issues at the BBC. Now this week she's been giving evidence to a parliamentary committee.
www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/carrie-gracie-bbc-gender-pay-gap-women-latest-news-mp-committee-journalist-salaries-a8187456.html%3famp

I'm so impressed with her that she is challenging the way things are done, rather than taking a pay rise in return for keeping her mouth shut, as many other women are pressured to do.
Some of the things the BBC have been saying must be very hurtful.
Well done Carrie.

I think she’s incredible. Very brave.

Taking a stand for all women’s rights 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

She's fantastic and what she's doing is really important.

It's so instructive seeing it all played out in public: the unfair treatment, the belittling reason-giving, the inability to specify how employees are valued except for the coincidence that the really valuable ones all have penises, the attempts at silencing, the offers of inadequate, point-missing payoffs.

I imagine a fair few women with similar experiences have been saying to themselves 'hang on a minute, it was never about me at all!'

I remember her from years ago when she was presenting the news and interviewing an MP about the expenses scandal and he asked what her pay was and she answered him without hesitation.

I thinks she’s fantastic.

Agreed. Fantastical and ethical - she actually resigned in protest.
The BBC comes out very poorly

Fantastic

I completely agree, she has done brilliantly and the BBC look very bad.

I read this quote: 'She said management notes from her grievance hearing with the BBC were an 'absolutely disgraceful nine pages of error and spin' " and I completely recognise that as I got the same when I tried to complain about discrimination to an employer, also a large one you'd expect to behave ethically. Carrie G's shock and anger over this is very familiar to me and I'm so glad she's spoken out.

She is fabulous.

(Ironically, the other day, after her resignation, the BBC website had a long article by her on China and the "new silk road" - presumably written prior to her resignation. It was a great piece. I will miss her reporting.)

YY, I saw a bit of it yesterday where she said she was prepared to discuss her case as she recognised she had power/privilege that other women within the bbc don’t have.

Well done her!

Just shows the 'laws' to protect us on this aren't worth the paper they're written. I've had disputes in a 'mostly female' job as a council administrator, paid less as a job than 'not a woman in sight' jobs like binmen, maintenance workers etc. And as Carrie has shown there is often no recourse other than walking out in protest.