Identify as 27
Oh how about that, the BBC does know who is a woman when it comes time to pay the salaries.
Four senior female news presenters have accused the BBC of “grinding down” women on pay and failing to tackle persistent pay discrimination at a tribunal court hearing in London.
The presenter Martine Croxall – alongside Karin Giannone, Kasia Madera and Annita McVeigh – accused the broadcaster of conducting a “sham recruitment exercise” after they lost their jobs when the BBC merged its domestic and global news channels last year.
In witness statements the women, aged between 48 and 54, said they had been discriminated against because of their sex, age and union membership.
Plus their failure to identify as trans. Maybe it’s not too late?
In documents the women said that Jess Brammar, the BBC’s then editor of news channels, “privately assured four other chief presenters – two men and two younger women – their jobs were safe, but admitted she couldn’t say much ‘for legal reasons’”.
In witness statements the women said that while some of them were demoted, others faced a pay cut. They added: “No men and no women younger than us suffered these detriments.”
Well it’s only fair. If you’ve got the bad taste to be female the least you can do is be young.
Why stop at 27, though? Why not be (forever) 21? Go big or go home and all that.
Well then why not be forever 1? 21 is too young and wet behind the ears.
The advantage of being forever 21 is that there is already a chain of stores catering explicitly to that demographic group. Someone would have to open a store called Forever 1. But there is a chain called Pier One, so maybe they could take on that market.