BBC women insist on salary gap action

LONDON - Prominent women at the BBC want the broadcaster's gender pay gap to be resolved immediately rather than in several years.

TV personalities including Clare Balding, Victoria Derbyshire and others wrote an open letter on Sunday to the BBC's top manager saying that plans to resolve the company's gender pay gap must be accelerated.

Documents made public last week showed that male BBC TV and radio personalities make substantially more than their female counterparts. The salary disparity came to light after the publicly funded BBC was forced to publish the salary range of its best-paid actors and presenters.