This is Fair?

The All English Club announced Thursday that it’s leveling the prize money between the men and women at Wimbledon, finally heeding to the complaints of the loudest voices in the crowd. Well now, aren't they just the cat’s pajamas.

But let me ask this: since when is it right for any employee, regardless of trade, to earn more than his or her colleague for doing less work? Would it be right if I worked six hours a day while my coworker did the same job for eight at the same salary? This isn’t an equal rights issue, this is sexism in sheeps clothing.

In no way should the women, who only play best of three-set matches, be given the same earning potential as the men, who compete under the same dead heat of summer in best of five-set matches. The people who put the pressure on the All England Club to equalize the prize money should first have fought to equalize the playing field.

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