Sheryl Sandberg Calls For Policy Changes To Raise Women's Pay
Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs on Sunday she believed job openings should be contested by equal numbers of women and men.
“We need to start paying women well and we need the public and the corporate policy to get there,” she said. “Certainly, women applying for jobs at the same rate as men, women running for office at the same rate as men, that has got to be part of the answer.”
Her comments come after the row over gender imbalances at the BBC following the publication of pay rates for broadcast talent, which revealed wide gaps between the earnings of male and female colleagues in some departments.
Sandberg is estimated by Forbes magazine to be worth $1.7bn (£1.3bn), but she told the Desert Island Discs presenter Kirsty Young she experienced self-doubt while studying at Harvard and recognised that women underestimated their worth more than men, which stopped them putting themselves forward or asking for a pay rise.
In the light of the recent revelations that the BBC is paying its female presenters less than their male colleagues, I thought this article was relevant to the topic.
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg has called for public policy changes to help improve women’s pay and claimed that women underestimate their worth, which prevents them from asking for wage rises.
Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs on Sunday she believed job openings should be contested by equal numbers of women and men.
“We need to start paying women well and we need the public and the corporate policy to get there,” she said. “Certainly, women applying for jobs at the same rate as men, women running for office at the same rate as men, that has got to be part of the answer.”
Her comments come after the row over gender imbalances at the BBC following the publication of pay rates for broadcast talent, which revealed wide gaps between the earnings of male and female colleagues in some departments.
Sandberg is estimated by Forbes magazine to be worth $1.7bn (£1.3bn), but she told the Desert Island Discs presenter Kirsty Young she experienced self-doubt while studying at Harvard and recognised that women underestimated their worth more than men, which stopped them putting themselves forward or asking for a pay rise.
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