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Originally Posted by the truth

forcing everyone to pay women twice the hourly rate of men for less work of a lower quality, then we should therefore pay the disabled champion £1.2 million too? right? equality for all

Don't be ridiculous, they don't work on an hourly rate. It's a prize fund for a winning a competition. As MTVN pointed out earlier, if they were working on an hourly rate, the better players would earn less per game because they beat other players quicker and don't have to spend as much time on court.