Male radio host takes pay cut so his female co-host is paid the same

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Comedians Dave Hughes and Kate Langbroek are both hosts on KIIS FM, a radio station in Sydney, Australia. They do the same job, ribbing off each other as you do on an afternoon show, but Langbroek was getting paid significantly less than her male counterpart.

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"I found out last year that you get paid 40 per cent more than I do for doing this show," she said on air back on International Women's Day in March.

Hughes was aghast at the revelation, and said he felt "terrible." Up until that point, the pair had never discussed how much they get paid. Read more...More about Business, Media, Australia, Radio, and Gender Pay Gap

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