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EQUALITY AND TENNIS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2016

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Abstract

Men, it is sometimes alleged, deserve more prize money than women for winning tennis Grand Slams such as Wimbledon because they are required to play more tennis than women. Such an argument has two flaws. First, it is empirically unsound: the nature of tennis means women can and often do play more tennis than men; and second, the argument rests on a category mistake by confusing prize money with financial remuneration. Moreover, the focus on prize money neglects more fundamental issues of sexual inequality, in particular, why women do not face the same challenges as men at the Grand Slams.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2016 

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2 Kevin Mitchell ‘Novack Djockovic beats Rafael Nadal to win men's title’, The Guardian, 30 January 2012.

3 David Seminara ‘The day they belabored the point’, New York Times, 23 September 2009.

4 Jamie Jackson ‘Sam Stosur hits back in pay row with Gilles Simon’, The Guardian, 28 June 2012.