I fail to see how paying the sharapovas and henins 4% more on an already staggering prize money of 625,000 can be beneficiary to the "women's movement". Uneducated girls remain uneducated, the rapes continue unchecked and the women that face the atrocities day in and day out have no means to escape it.
Wimbledon bows to women's call for pay equality
By Jonathan Brown
Published: 23 February 2007Former Wimbledon champions queued up yesterday to pay tribute to the decision to offer equal prize money to both male and female winners of the Grand Slam tournament. Amélie Mauresmo, whose £625,000 prize cheque was £30,000 less than Roger Federer's last year, declared it a "victory for women in general". Maria Sharapova, who lifted the silver salver in 2004, said she was "thrilled". Three-times champion Venus Williams said the event would now be "even greater".
Day to Day, February 22, 2007 · The Wimbledon tennis tournament has announced
that it will begin paying female and male players the same amount for winning.
Wimbledon resisted making the pay equal for years, citing rules that require
more tennis play for men in order for them to win. Source: www.npr.org
All things not equal at Wimbledon Today's announcement of equal prize money for men and women at SW19 smacks of political correctness for political correctness' sake.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/02/22/all_things_not_equal_at_wimble.html
2 comments:
I heard the news here..Interesting..Contradictions indeed...!!!
I know it wouldn't benefit the "Women's movement" but the same can be said about the federer's and nadal's being paid that much prize money..!!
I guess, the wimbledon official's should have lowered the prize money for the male winner's instead of hiking it for the opposite sex..
That would have saved a lot of money for the "good of this world"... ;):D
I hope we could do more than just coming to wierd connclusions..ahhh..we could stop watching wimbledon...lol...:p
lol... :)
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