How Big Is the Prize Money Gap? - Analysis of Prize Money in 2016 Grand Slam Tournaments

Authors

SVOBODA Martin RAKOVSKÁ Zuzana

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Financial Assets and Investing
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

Citation
Web https://journals.muni.cz/fai/article/view/7879
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/FAI2017-1-3
Field Economy
Keywords tennis; sports finance; gender inequality; gender bias; prize money
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Description Since 2007 all Grand Slam tournaments have offered equal prize money for male and female tennis players. Although men and women are paid equally in Grand Slams they still play a different number of best-of sets – men play best-of-five set matches while women play best-of-three set matches. Those two competing circumstances created a financial gap in prize money paid to women and men for the unit of effort in a tennis play – for a game. The present paper estimates this financial gap for 2016 Grand Slam tournaments. Moreover, it demonstrates the nominal magnitude of this gap and its effect on year-to-year increasing prize money that are paid to winners. The results showed that women on average obtained 60% more prize money for a game played than men in all four 2016 Grand Slams.
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