By Catherine Townsend PUBLISHED: 12:12 EST, 9 August 2013 | UPDATED: 14:40 EST, 9 August 2013 Veteran broadcaster Barbara Walters has revealed that she battled rampant sexism early in her career by not getting angry and staying focused on her job. The 83-year-old ABC News anchor and co-creator of The View has interviewed every president since Richard Nixon, but in the 1970s her male co-host - who was paid twice her salary - refused to do joint interviews with her unless he could ask the first three questions. 'I felt I had to just do my job. And I have said this to other women: “Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights",' she tells Bloomberg Businessweek.
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While working on The Today Show in the 1970s, her male co-host refused to do joint interviews with her unless he could ask the first three questions
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Ms Walters advises women to 'just do your job' and 'fight the big fights'
Ms Walters began her broadcasting career in 1962 doing women's issues for @placeholder, which she calls 'tea pouring interviews', and admits that 'it was a very different time.'