its shocking isnt it? But we need to get behind females in sport and start going to the events and emailing tv stations about putting these events to air. The more that sponsors see people are watching the more the females will get paid.

Perhaps the winners cheques are different because of the amount of money the sponsors have received from the men and women who enter the sport. There is usually a fee to enter and that pays out the winnings.

I never noticed the cheques at first but now that I have, I think it is wrong that the men get more than women. It shouldn’t matter how many male competitors there are, the prize money should be the same for both winners. Hope they have now got the message. Wonder if there were only half the male competitors if they would accept half the prize money the female receive.

Funnily enough, when I first looked at this photo I just saw two winners – a male and female. I did not even look at the cheque. I was then bombarbed via eNewsletters and social media I follow with the prize money issue. Absolutely not fair, and no doubt will be damaging to the organisers so I hope by highlighting this – and it has been highlighted everywhere over the past few days — we will see change.

I don’t care how many competitors there are, women still work just as hard to get there as men and should be recognised for it.

Yep, this seems so wrong. Times are a-changing and soon this will be a thing of the past that we will all look back on in disbelief.

I think times are changing and soon we will have equal prize money for these events. Unfortunately it takes time.

Huge difference should be equal regardless of gender, age and race.

Just another example of gender inequality, no wonder women value themselves less than men and are always trying to better themselves whether it is just looks, parenting or jobs, where as men seem to accept themselves as they are and so does the world!

This is a Strange story to me .

This seems a strange Basis on which to allocate prize money. Mightn’t a higher prize attract more entrants?

I agree that the prize’s amount shouldn’t depend on the number of competitors. I think they should change this rule.

Unfortunately the pay inequality thing is real and people experience it at any job

That is strange they should get the same.

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  • • kjgarner replied
    • 30 Jun 2018 , 7:59 pm

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  Yeah they should get the same

That’s awful!!! Pay inequality.

It’s worrying that this is happening at a junior level.

The problem with the differing amount of competitors argument, is that they cap the number of entrants. There may have been the same amount of women enter if they’d let them. They absolutely should be held up as an example of sexism affecting the gender pay gap.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 29 Jun 2018 , 10:05 am

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  Well said! I agree, make it appealing and let everyone in and pay them equally.

Prize money is usually set and allocated before an event and it not usually reliant upon the number of competitors. Usually competitions are announced and then people enter – so perplexes me greatly!!! Surely it is time for equity!!!

What a clear case of gender discrimination. They won the same competition, they would win the same amount of money.

After it was explained that more competitors equals more prize money, I thought fair enough. But why can’t the just offer a lump sum prize, regardless of how many enter