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10	April 2018

China's Three Gorges Reservoir raised its discharge volume

Women working for the BBC have complained they were paid less than men in equivalent jobs and have accused managers of misleading them about their pay to hide widespread gender discrimination at the public broadcaster.

The complaints by BBC Women Joe Dumars Pistons Jersey , a group of 170 staff, were sent to parliament's media committee, which is investigating BBC pay after the corporation was forced to disclose last July that two- thirds of on-air high earners were men and that some were paid far more than female peers.

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The lawmakers are due to hear oral evidence on Wednesday from Carrie Gracie, the BBC's former China editor, who quit this month in protest over being paid less than her male peers .

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Funded by a licence fee levied on TV viewers and reaching 95 percent of British adults every week, the BBC is a pillar of the nation's life, but as such it is closely scrutinised and held to exacting standards by the public and by rival media.

The BBC said in response to the evidence submitted by BBC Women and the NUJ that it was committed to equal pay and did not accept the assertion that it had not been complying with equality laws.

In the wake of Gracie's resignation and the public debate it sparked Ish Smith Pistons Jersey , six of the BBC's best-known male presenters and journalists agreed to take pay cuts. That was widely welcomed, but campaigners for equal pay said it did not solve the underlying issues.

BBC Women said gender pay discrimination affected every part of the organisation, not just high earners.

The group provided 14 individual examples of women in a range of roles as TV and radio presenters and reporters, all of whom described frustrating battles with managers after discovering they were paid less than their male counterparts.

"I have co-presented with a male colleague for many years ... I estimate he's paid around double what I earn for doing the same job Henry Ellenson Pistons Jersey ," said one of the unnamed women in a typical submission. "I raised the equal pay issue many times over the years, but nothing was done."

(Agencies)

WUHAN, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- China's Three Gorges Reservoir raised its discharge volume starting Monday to increase the power supply to downstream provinces.

At 2 p.m. Tuesday, the reservoir's storage flow was recorded at 8 Greg Monroe Pistons Jersey ,100 cubic meters per second, while outbound flow was 8,110 cubic meters per second, according to the Yangtze River Water Resources Committee.

The daily average outbound flow has increased to 9 Grant Long Pistons Jersey ,520 cubic meters per second.

Due to continuous cold weather, central China's Hubei Province, east China's Anhui Province and Jiangxi Province have experienced power shortages.

The Yangtze river flood control office asked the Three Gorges Reservoir to increase its discharge volume starting Monday to ensure the power supply of the downstream provinces.

The increased outbound flow will be maintained through February 3 to 5.

The water storage in the upper reaches of the Three Gorges Reservoir is up 10 percent year on year, according to the Yangtze River Water Resources Committee.

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