I felt a prat and I felt that I'd been stitched up.
But then I realised that, of course, this is a much wider problem,
it wasn't just about me and Jenny Murray, who was the other presenter of Woman's Hour at the time.
It was about women's contributions to the BBC being undervalued and underrated.
That's broadcaster Jane Garvey, talking to me about the moment she realised she was a victim of the gender pay gap,
while ironically enough presenting the popular BBC radio programme Woman's Hour,
which has literally been talking about the gender pay gap since 1947.
Welcome to LSEIQ, the podcast where we ask social scientists and other experts one intelligent question.
I'm Anna Bevan from the IQ team.
We work with academics to bring you their latest ideas and research and talk to people affected by the issues we explore.
In this episode, I'm asking, how can we solve the gender pay gap?
We'll be hearing more from Jane about how she unwittingly became a campaigner for Equal Pay.
Nina Rousseal describes how the gender pay gap begins in preschool.
And Camille Lundes explains why increasing parental leave isn't always the solution.
On average across the globe, for every pound earned by a man, a woman earns around 80 pence.
But despite huge advances in access to education, the labour market and the introduction of the Equality Act of 2010,
which guarantees equal pay for men and women doing the same job,
those figures have pretty much remained the same for the past two decades.
Still, the gender pay gap, the difference between the average earnings of men and women, endures.
So, how can we solve it?