Equal Pay for Equal Work
The WTA -- the professional women's tennis association -- is complaining because the women still aren't getting paid as much as the men.
The WTA Tour, which has lobbied for equal pay for years, expressed disappointment that Wimbledon "continues to promote inequality in pay across the board between men and women."
"In the 21st century, it is morally indefensible that women competitors in a Grand Slam tournament should be receiving considerably less prize money than their male counterparts," WTA Tour chief executive Larry Scott said in a statement.
I honestly don't care about tennis -- women's or men's -- but if women want the same amount of money, then they should be playing best-of-five matches instead of best-of-three. They seem to have forgotten the second part of that old saw -- the equal work part.
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Absolutely - a sane voice at last!
or playing and beating the men. Annika Sorenstam is the closest thing to playing equal to a man, and that's no knock on the rest, simply the truth. You don't pay "A" league wages to "B" players
"Equal work" doesn't work in sports. It isn't work, they get paid to play. The pay is proportional to the number of people who want to watch. There is probably a way to get more people to watch the women, but I don't think the WTA had the beach volleyball route in mind.
Tennis analogy is weak. Women tend to volley longer, so three sets for them is longer than three for men. I'm not sure if it equals five sets, but it is probably close. Although I am not much of a tennis fan, I actually prefer watching women play. Question--Do women draw better crowds than men in tennis?