French Open Decides to Pay Women Players More Than Male Players

2007-03-17
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(Above) Belgium’s Justine Henin, French Open champion three of the past four years, says she’s happy that in 2007 she’ll be paid equal to men for doing considerably less work.

The tennis pay fiasco is a classic example of how feminism, political correctness and male chivalry so often bulldoze common sense and fairness. According to the Associated Press article “French Open extends equal pay to women”

:“The French Open will award equal prize money to male and female players throughout the tournament, falling in line with the three other Grand Slam tournaments.

“The announcement Friday by the French Tennis Federation extends last year’s decision.

“The French Open paid the men’s and women’s singles champions the same for the first time, although the overall prize fund remained larger for men. “‘In 2007, the parity will be total,’ federation president Christian Bimes said.”

The article intentionally ignores the decisive fact that in the French Open the men play a best of five series while the women play only best of three. Men play 67% more sets than women do. Some “equal pay for equal work”!

As I noted here a couple of weeks ago, Wimbledon recently made the same decision based on the same feminist strong-arming/shaming tactics.

In the AP article feminist ex-tennis player Billie Jean King saluted this pay “equity.” In 1973 King, at age 29, struck what for some reason is considered a great blow for feminism and women’s equality by beating 55 year-old Bobby Riggs in a famous match in the Astrodome. King was in the prime of her career in 1973. By contrast, Riggs (see below) had made the cover of Newsweek magazine for his play in…1939.

To be fair, I will say that I often find the women’s tennis matches more interesting than the men’s. The men’s game just seems so power-oriented to the point where I lose interest. The women’s game seems more varied and creative. I used to be a decent tennis player but have been shelved for the past couple years by vertigo, which has been a real drag.

Riggs on the cover of a 1939 Newsweek

Riggs on the cover of a 1939 Newsweek magazine

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  • DadWithGirls

    Perhaps Glenn, the “work” for which female players are being rewarded is less about their proportional exertion with men than a recognition of their greater propensity to entertain?

    Tennis, after all, is a spectator’s sport. It benefits from spectacles. You yourself like the girl’s game more than the men’s.

    There’s a price to be paid for your chivalristic voyeurism!

  • Toubrouk

    The truth is, tennis is slowly turning into beach volleybal with the players showcasing their bodies. I guess everybody remembers Williams’s catsuit a few years back. The persons behind the event know it, the tennis players know it and eveybody know that sex sells. So this is what they are paid more while they work less; the exibitionism kinda make it worthwile on the bottom, finantial line.

  • GladMadSadDad

    Probably not the best example of the ludicrousness of equal pay mandates since tennis generates income based its entertainment value and as long as women generate as much income as men, then they should be paid the same.

    On some level I welcome equal pay initiatives as I believe it could backfire on rad fems to the advantage of the rest of us. When secretaries can expect to be paid the same wage as garbagemen, I would think and hope many more men would pursue administrative careers and improve the quality of their lives. Perhaps as the trash piles up, our society will wake up to the nonsense?

    Across the board we would quickly have shortages in all dangerous jobs that heretofore attracted men, but not women. Once again, the absolute craziness of feminist dotrine will be exposed. Equal pay might not be such a bad idea…I suspect it will disappear before too long and maybe take rad fems with it!

  • DadWithGirls

    My only real beef is just to protest why the male designers of Serena William’s sports bra are not getting residual payments for every limited bounce?

    Now, that’s engineering prowess!

  • badger

    That’s not Justine Henin. It’s Maria Sharapova. The quote was attributed to Henin not Sharapova. I also understand that female porn stars make more money than the men with the men doing most of the work. Not that I would know anything about that. Really I wouldn’t.

  • ninderthana

    I am oposed to women tennis players being payed more per hour than male tennis players.

    My solution: I have stopped watching all women’s tennis and will do so until the feminazis stop demanding that women tennis players be given priveledges that are bot given to men.

    Feminism is evil political movemnet whose day’s are numbered!!

  • amfortas

    Women’s tennis pay. The bottom line.

    If that’s the way it is to be then let’s pay more for cuter bums.

  • http://whatmenthinkofwomen.blogspot.com/ christianj

    They really are goddesses, REALLY.

    Unfortunately, they have failed to inform the rest of the planet that they really are the supreme being..

    We just think they’re selfish, self-serving, self-orientated, self-interested, self-promotional, self-interested, self-centered individuals…

    But I am just reflecting the obvious.






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