Murray 17
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Because back in the day it was considered that women were not physically capable of playing 5 sets.
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Because back in the day it was considered that women were not physically capable of playing 5 sets.
Guy Fawkes
The voice of treason
- Sep 29, 2007
- 8,205
And nowadays? are they seen as capable but tradition is going to mean that they will always only play 3 sets in Grand slam events. (or possible just a lack of time to fit it all in if all matches were 5 sets long)
yxee
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Sounds like positive discrimination to me.
driller
my life my word
Women porn stars are paid more than the men
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Super Steve Earle
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I work with several others doing exactly the same job. None of us is paid the same although at least one woman is paid £3k pa more than me. Is this what they want to change?
pastafarian
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a man Brass gets nothing like a woman Brass pay wise
the feminists are very quiet on this pay inequality
the feminists are very quiet on this pay inequality
Tyrone Biggums
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More feminist bullshit.
The whole wage disparity is based on some of the laziest most pointless fudging of statistics ever.
They don't differentiate between occupations in these studies to come up with their conclusions.
The whole wage disparity is based on some of the laziest most pointless fudging of statistics ever.
They don't differentiate between occupations in these studies to come up with their conclusions.
Mattywerewolf
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Supply and demand will always be the only decider in industries supported by sponsorship, TV rights and the general paying customer. The quality of tennis (by which I mean any top 100 player in the men's game would thrash Serena) is worse but people enjoy watching it and pay to do so. I think setting the pay levels exactly the same is a bit arbitrary. If centre court was empty on women's quarter final,semi and final days or visa versa trust me they wouldn't be paid the same.....
Mattywerewolf
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And they don't have to stay up as long either....
mona
The Glory Game
It's what the BBC does rather well (original article).
Lets face it there's a Woman's Hour endlessly discussing FGM but no male equivalent on the radio.
Tyrone Biggums
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It's simply being disingenuous to push an agenda.
Of course men earn more when you compare engineers and oil rig workers (predominantly male occupations) with teachers and nurses (predominanlty female occupations).
And that's what more than a few of these "studies" do to dupe people into thinking men get paid more than women. Compare apples with oranges.
In terms of prize money men's and women's beach volleyball players do get paid equally.