http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-lets-ask-w...WHAT a joke. Lisa Wilkinson is hailed as a crusader for equal pay because she quit Channel 9 for getting less than Today co-host Karl Stefanovic. But hang on: snapped up by Channel 10 for The Project, she’ll now be paid three times more than her new co-host Waleed Aly.
Same job, different pay
Wilkinson will get a reported $1.5 million or more from Channel 10, against Aly’s $500,000 or so.
Where’s the equality there? Should Aly now claim he’s a victim of racism? Of Islamophobia?
Actually, no. Wilkinson will also do the same job as Project co-host Carrie Bickmore, yet will be paid staggeringly more than her, too.
So why is the media buying this myth that Wilkinson is the victim of a wicked media company that refused to pay her the same as a bloke doing the same job?
“I want you guys to close the gender pay gap,” she reportedly told Nine, cross that she was getting $1.1 million to Stefanovic’s $2 million.
Nine offered another $700,000, but wasn’t enough. Wilkinson stormed off to Channel 10, with activists, journalists and even politicians praising her comically as a heroine of the oppressed and warrior for equality.
“By changing jobs, Lisa has highlighted the gender pay gap like never before,” gloated Tracey Spicer, former TV host and national convener of Women in Media.
Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten agreed: “(She) put the national spotlight on the gender pay gap …”
It got even crazier. In Fairfax media, management consultant Kasey Edwards praised Wilkinson as a woman who “ fought for equal pay
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