In an internal and confidential memo, Financial Times managing editor Dan Bogler (see our Future of journalism interview with him) admitted that female journalists were paid less than men in equivalent jobs.

In the memo, he said "the bald statistics show that women are paid less than men for equivalent jobs at the FT."

However, he also defended this based on the fact the duration of employment was much shorter for women.

"This does not take into account the fact that, on average, our female staff have shorter service records than their male colleagues, which explains the difference," he wrote.

According to an FT spokesman, the difference in pay is less than 10%, but members of the National Union of Journalists claim the FT's own salary survey found a 11% pay difference.

The leaked memo comes in the middle of a management-employee crisis at the FT over staff wages.

Source: Guardian