Serena Williams slams 'racial' gender pay-gap as BBC suffer staff fallout

As the workplace storm sparked by the gender pay-gap intensifies, Serena Williams has penned a Fortune-published essay noting the financial disparity black female workers suffer.

In her essay, titled “How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap”, the 23-times Grand Slam winner writes that black women have to work eight months longer than their male counterparts to earn the same amount of money.

The US tennis star cites the current US gender pay-gap as being 37 cents lower for women for every dollar earned by men.

Furthermore, she notes that women earn 17% less than their white female counterparts writing that “black women who have earned graduate degrees get paid less at every level. This is as true in inner cities as it is in Silicon Valley”.