Summary
WHILE everyone else in the country has been stocking up on Pimms, pretending to talk knowledgeably about Andy Murray's backhand, and ordering in those nice organic strawberries in preparation for the start of today's Wimbledon, our Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has found little of joy in the summer tradition of the All England tennis tournament.
"Women's tennis has made giant strides in recent years, becoming both highly competitive and extremely entertaining," she wrote tetchily in a letter last week to the All England Lawn Tennis Club committee. "In my view it is anomalous that women receive less prize money than men and this fact is tarnishing the image of the championship."See the full content of this document
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Time for Fair Pay
She's got a point. Wimbledon is the only major tennis tournament left in the world that pays its women champions less than its men. GBP 30,000 less, to be exact, with the Roger Federers of the world walking away with a healthy GBP 655,000 for their trouble, and their female counterparts netting (sorry) a comparatively anaemic GBP 625,000. The official line from club chai...
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