Author: Kira

 

Following the reveal that the BBC pay their female staff less than their male staff, a report published by the BBC has found ‘no gender bias ’ in the BBC.

 

The report, done by accounting firm pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC), found a 6.8% pay gap but no gender discrimination when looking at the pay of on air employees, prompting responses criticizing its small sample size and suggesting that the entire report was pointless. Its main opposition is the BBC women’s group which consists of more than 170 female presenters.

Pay caps of £320,00 for news presenters, editors and correspondents has been suggested as a way of rectifying this pay gap, as well as several high profile male presenters agreeing to have their pay cut including John Humphrys, Jeremy Vine, and Nicky Campbell. However, critics aren’t so impressed with these measures with one women’s hour presenter, Garvey, saying “This has never been about men taking pay cuts. It’s about women being payed several thousand pounds less than their male colleagues every year for doing exactly the same job.”

You’re walking down the street doing a bit of shopping when a small voice to the side of you calls out “Do you have any change?”

What do you do?

We’ve all heard the cautionary word of warning that you shouldn’t give homeless people money because they’ll just spend it on drugs. But do they? Recently there’s been a lot of media coverage perpetuating this idea and implying that anyone who asks you for money on the streets is faking it or using it to fuel a drug habit. So what do people at Marjon actually think of this conundrum? Do you give homeless people money or do you donate to a homeless charity?