Showing posts with label Fair Pay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fair Pay. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Tennis. Why don't the women play '5 Set' matches. Close the 'Play Gap'. #AustralianOpen

I'm sat watching the #AustralianOpen on TV and, yet again, find myself asking the same question that I have asked for many years.Why do the women get away with only playing 'Best of 3 Sets'. The Men's pathway to the Final is littered with long, gruelling 'Best of 5 Sets' matches, so why the inequality? Why aren't there loud voices calling for the 'Play Gap' to be closed?

Surely, in times where equality is pushed with such fervour (rightly so), it is only right that the women get the same prize money for the