Why should women tennis players get paid the same as men?

The (recent) history of women and long distance running (and not being allowed to do it) is really interesting a worth a google if anyone wants.

I imagine there is a similar story for things like (off the top of my head) boxing.

Gertrude upthread said time constraints.

I imagine it is "tradition" - women have frequently not been allowed to do things considered as physically challenging men (see marathon & zola budd and stuff) really until quite recently, and then they don't want to change it as it would lengthen the tournament.

OP said that women are demanding more money at wimbledon.

I find that hard to believe as well

Also, why does this come up every year? They have been paid the same for years, it is a private prize fund, why do people care so much? Do they think that professional female tennis players who are on the tour and winning competitions are taking the piss in some way? I can't really understand why people raise this all the time, why it upsets them.

I never see threads saying that women should get lesser medals at the olympics. Or that different weights of boxers should go in the ring together. Or that competition at secondary school must be mixed. Or that football teams or rugby teams should be mixed.

This obviously gets some people's goats and I cannot for the life of me understand why. Unless they are top ranking international tennis players themselves, I suppose

Why don't women play the same number of sets?

A quick google tells me that women have been getting the same prize money as men at wimbledon since 2007.

Now they are demanding more money???

I can't see it being agreed that they get more than the men. Where did you get that from?

I expect they all do the same amount of training though. Women don't train less because their games are shorter. Competitions are just a small amount of playing time in the grand scheme of things.

OP perhaps 400m runners should be paid 4 times the prize money of 100m runners?

Of course men and women should paid the same. However, I think that the amount of games played by men and women should also be the same.

They should get paid a set amount per set played during the tournament. The same amount for men and women.

The main prize therefore being the trophy and the title, not the money.

Of course women should be paid the same prize money as men. In some tournaments men only play 3 sets as well. In tournaments like Wimbledon the women aren't given the opportunity to play 5 sets so are discriminated against - it is the equivalent of telling female athletes running the 500m they can only run 300 of them. Tournament organisers don't want women to play 5 sets because there wouldn't be time to complete all matches.

Some tournaments see the men playing best of three sets, same as the women. They should all get paid the same for those.

I'd like to see all the names put into a hat for Wimbledon, and drawn at random. Men and women could draw each other. Then there could be no complaints about getting paid the same.