Equal

By: Carrie Gracie

Narrated by: Carrie Gracie

Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's Summary

Equal is an inspiring, personal and campaigning book about how we should and can fight for equal pay and other kinds of equality in the workplace, by former BBC China editor Carrie Gracie. 

Gracie joined a group of high-profile BBC women who challenged the national broadcaster over equal pay after enforced disclosures revealed huge gaps between top men and women. Gracie had insisted on equal pay at the time of her China posting, and after trying with other BBC women to put things right through negotiation, she eventually resigned her post, complaining publicly of a 'secretive and illegal' pay culture. Her protest triggered a parliamentary inquiry into BBC pay, and after a protracted internal complaints process, she won an apology from the BBC and a settlement which she donated to the Fawcett Society. 

In Equal Gracie tells her own story, explores why it is often so hard for women to assert their value in the workplace and gives practical guidance on what women, men and employers can do to achieve equality for this and future generations of women.

©2019 Carrie Gracie (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK

Brilliant, insightful - a real call to arms

This is a brilliant book from the hugely impressive Carrie Gracie. Insightful, candid, and a real call to arms.

Powerful

It made me think of all the times I have striven for promotion and recognition where my male counterparts seemed to sail through. Not any more.

Taking on the BBC - Did not see this coming

One would not expect the BBC, a publicly owned broadcaster in the UK, to behave like a legal gang of thugs. In this book, it clearly shows how personal and thuggery and thuggish behaviour becomes when egos are touched. The BBC as shown in this book is after all managed by people who can if not managed right behave like thugs. And using public money going on a spending spree with lawyers and consultants to cover their tracks and thuggish behaviour.

It is very much possible that your employer is behaving similarly and denying your equality before the law.

This book is a fascinating account of a woman 🚺 who took on the BBC and its thuggish behaving management structure and won. Thus book is a great resource full of details plans of action.

I would recommend it if you work in management or aspire to. If you have an interest in finding out how unequal women are treated. If you want to find out that your salary is most probably less than a man next to you doing the same job or work of equal value under the pretence that they have something more special than you.

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez is another great resource to support your cause for equal pay.