Actually women are paid more at grand slam tournaments

[obow]

In any grand slam tournament, the total prize money won by the 128 female players from the singles' main draws is always bigger than the corresponding 128 male competitors, and the average prize money won by women is higher than men.

The reason is simple, most women from single's main draws also play doubles and mix-doubles, however it is much harder (schedule wise + men's matches longer & physically more demanding) for any of men's top 30 or top 50 players to manage those 3 events.

What we see is that there are more men's doubles specialists, ie., the total number of male competitors in a grand slam tournament is always more than the female total.

Although the total prize money for men and women are the same, the men's pot are shared by more people.

 

[ollinger]

Ahhh, finally someone to de-bunk the nonsense about women getting paid the same for less work. Your point is that since more of the women play both singles and doubles, they in fact are doing MORE work than the men....and doubtless are underpaid since doubles money is generally not very good.

 

[MindoverMatter]

Ahhh, finally someone to de-bunk the nonsense about women getting paid the same for less work. Your point is that since more of the women play both singles and doubles, they in fact are doing MORE work than the men....and doubtless are underpaid since doubles money is generally not very good.

That's not quite a fair enough thing to say. If you take into account the 3 sets instead of 5 that men play and figure that doubles is less work that singles (womens doubles is also only 3 sets whereas mens is 5), the work is probably about the same at that point with the women earning more than the men.

 

[Milan]

Ahhh, finally someone to de-bunk the nonsense about women getting paid the same for less work. Your point is that since more of the women play both singles and doubles, they in fact are doing MORE work than the men....and doubtless are underpaid since doubles money is generally not very good.

Stupid *** comment