London — The BBC said three women — Claudia Winkleman, Vanessa Feltz and Zoe Ball — had joined the list of its top 10 paid stars, a change the publicly funded British broadcaster said demonstrated the progress it was making in closing its gender pay gap.

The BBC was criticised two years ago when it was forced to disclose that 75% of its staff paid more than £150,000 a year were men, with its highest 10 earners all men...

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