Should Roland Garros and Wimbledon Give Women Equal Prize Money?
Thursday May 11, 2006
While the US Open and Australian Open offer equal prize money to men and women across the board, Wimbledon continues to offer larger prizes to the men throughout, and Roland Garros only offers equal prizes to the champions. Billie Jean King, Venus Williams, and Maria Sharapova, among others, have spoken out for equal prize money, citing the strong ratings and growing popularity of women's tennis to further support, in addition to principle and symbolic importance, their arguments for equality. Tim Phillips, the chairman of the All England Club, argues that it would be unfair to the men not to pay them more, because they play longer singles matches and thus can't as easily earn additional money in doubles. What do you think?
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So, is he basically saying tennis players get paid by the hour? Then, baseball players should be making a whole lot more than other athletes, right? Nine innings and all
Women’s tennis being more popular than men’s tennis a lot of the time, it seems to be they should get more cash. To me it should all be based on the draw. I’ve got no problem with what MLB or NBA players make since we’re paying all that money to see them or wear their jersey. If people are paying to see the women’s matches more than the men’s, let pay them more.
I think that if the men bring in more money, they should get paid more. If woman brought in more money, they too should get paid more. Otherwise, i don’t see any reason as to why they should get more.
The issue here is more symbolic than otherwise. Girls wants to have the equal power by playing politcs. I think that tennis should be no different than any other sport, period. Whoever brings more attendance, money, sponsor and prestige, gets more money. So it is with soccer, basketball, Volleyball, Gymnastics, etc. Power, or symbolic issues, should never had a say on that.
If women spent more time out on the court than men would they want equal pay?
Fact: men’s tennis draws more attention to the game, is far more exciting to watch and without as doubt generates more revenue than women’s tennis. One could argue that because men are not paid more for playing longer mnatches they are being discriminated against. While women should b e rewarded on an equal scale to men things have gotten out of hand and many are just riding on coattails of pioneering women who actually worked hard for what they got.
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