BBC narrows gender pay gap by almost a fifth in one year

The BBC is reporting progress made in its quest to close an embarrassing gender pay gap within the organisation, having narrowed the salary divide between men and women by close to a fifth over the past year.
An updated gender pay gap report spanning 2017/18 reports a fall in the median gap from 9.3 to 7.6% while the mean differential is also down, falling from 10.7 to 8.4% courtesy of an ongoing process of ‘repositioning’ staff within their pay ranges and a simplified job ‘fra