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Bloomberg.com slash sbs-sdash-Sbass Singapore. Carrie Gracie was a top editor at the BBC.

She worked there for 30 years, and about five years ago, she moved to China for a prestigious job as one of four international editors.

Then, last summer, she found out she made 50% less than the men doing the same job.

She resigned.

I was for four years leading our China coverage.

That's Kerry testifying in front of British Parliament a few months ago.

There are significant risks in our China coverage. I dealt with them. I did a good job.

Twice. I've been a Royal Television Society nominee for the BBC for specialist journalists of the year.

It's just, and you know, I'm getting emotional. But what I really want to say about this equal pay problem at the BBC is what it forces the BBC to do is to retrofit in defense, you know, defenses, justifications of the indefensible.

The BBC gets most of its funding from the public. Its newest charter required

the broadcaster to reveal how much it pays its top talent. The government thought the people

should know where their money was going. It turned out it was mostly going to men. The BBC had a

wide pay gap at its most senior levels.

The top man made over two million pounds.

The highest paid woman? Just a quarter of that.

You have an equal pay problem, but you can't admit it because you don't want to confront what may be fiscal liabilities, which we all agree are there.

The BBC's pay scandal and Carrie's public statements caused a big headache for the company.

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