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    Telegraph Refers To Top BBC Job Candidate As "Mother Of Three"

    A lot of people are unhappy about a headline the newspaper carried yesterday.

    The big media news over the weekend is that Rona Fairhead, former CEO of the Financial Times Group, is the government's preferred candidate to become chairman of the BBC Trust, the BBC's governing body.

    And this is how The Sunday Telegraph covered the news yesterday:

    @EverydaySexism this wouldn't have been the headline if it was a man! Shame on the telegraph.

    The Telegraph's online story is very different. Columnist Joan Bakewell was positive about the appointment.

    But in any case, a lot of people are angry at what they see as sexist treatment of a major business figure.

    "Mother of three poised to lead the BBC," reads Sunday Telegraph headline on my iPad. Would it have read "Father of three" if it was a man?

    Daily Mail 1964: "Oxford Housewife Wins Nobel" Sunday Telegraph 2014: "Mother of three poised to lead the BBC" @EverydaySexism

    Sunday Telegraph headline: 'Mother of three poised to lead the BBC'. Don't recall them headlining number of kids Lord Patten had fathered.