I was a journalist’s dream case study; a gobby girl with an accent who was good at engineering. Steph McGovern Read Quote
I remember once at the end of a BBC job interview the manager said to me: ‘I didn’t realise people like you were clever.’ I don’t think he was being intentionally nasty. At that time in the BBC he was surrounded by clones of himself, give or take some facial hair and glasses. Steph McGovern Read Quote
The problem in business isn’t that women are overlooked because they are women, it’s that most people subconsciously look to employ a mini-me. It’s not a gender issue, it’s about diversification full stop. It’s hard to change that mindset and it hits women particularly hard because men historically have always been the recruiters. Steph McGovern Read Quote
There are a lot of women who do a similar job to me who are paid a hell of a lot more… who are a lot posher than me. Steph McGovern Read Quote
My first attempt at a business was a jumble sale which I ran at the end of my next door neighbour’s drive. I used to rummage through her garage, looking for anything that I thought people might buy. I’d then set up a table and try to sell what I could to the people walking by. Steph McGovern Read Quote
You’ll never see me on anything like ‘MasterChef.’ I’m just not interested. Steph McGovern Read Quote
I meet a lot of people with my BBC Breakfast job who have great businesses. Steph McGovern Read Quote
We concentrate too much on ethnic diversity and not enough on class. It’s dead important to represent loads of different cultures. But what the BBC doesn’t do enough of is thinking about getting people from more working-class backgrounds. Steph McGovern Read Quote
From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you. Steph McGovern Read Quote
