newyorker:

When Carrie Gracie discovered that her salary was lower than that of her male peers at BBC, she blamed herself. But wage disparities are a social problem with far-reaching effects.

Gracie turned down the BBC’s offer of a thirty-three-per-cent raise—which still left her salary far short of her male equivalents’—and filed a formal grievance; later, despite an offer of more than a hundred thousand pounds in back pay, she declined to settle, as she still wouldn’t have earned as much as her male colleagues.

Read more about how the BBC Women are working toward equal pay.