Game, set, no match
Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam tournament that pays the men’s champion more than the women’s winner and the All England Club are being criticised for this decision.
“It just doesn’t seem right to us that the lady players could play in three events and could take away significantly more than the men’s champion who battles away through these best-of-five matches,” All England Club chairman Tim Phillips said. “We don’t see it as an equal rights issue.”
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.” The men’s winner will receive $1.170 million and the women’s champion $1.117 million, a difference of $53,000.
If that translated into the office space, how long would it be before men complained they were working five hours a day, while the women are paid the same for three?