Ideas on the U.S. Open.
Final weekend, I watched massive elements of the U.S. Open ladies’s tennis finals on Saturday and males’s finals on Sunday. I watched some superb tennis.
At varied occasions throughout each matches, the digicam would present Billie Jean King and an announcer would say, with a celebratory voice, that she was the one who had persuaded the organizers of the U.S. Open to offer equal prizes to the female and male winners. This 12 months the prize was a cool $3.6 million.
For the final 45 years, I’ve paid consideration to the decision for “equal pay for equal work.” I don’t essentially agree with it, for causes that don’t matter on this context. However I at all times thought that the overwhelming majority of the folks pushing for it did imagine in it.
Now I’m wondering. Why? As a result of the prize within the U.S. Open is the other of equal pay for equal work. The lads work a lot tougher. To win, the boys should win 3 units. However the ladies want win solely 2 units. And that is true for the entire 2 weeks. Each match between males is the most effective of 5. Each match between ladies is the most effective of three.
But I hear nobody making that time.
Was the decision for “equal pay for equal work” insincere? Is it unhealthy if males get the identical pay for much less work however high-quality if ladies get the identical pay for much less work?
