Tour de France & TDF Femmes

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Personally, i think Men largely get paid too much, and women get paid way unders.
But there is a difference between closing the pay gap, and calling it equal.

Am i way off base?

On target.

Years ago when I was involved in juniors the team had a sports psych who also happened to be a mum to one of the players. She had a daughter as well as two boys, and at a dinner event we had this very discussion about equal pay in sport. All the same issues were covered that we've discussed here, and the thing that caught me out was she was far more practical than I expected. As a uni graduate I expected something radical, but she summed it up as this. When she goes to watch sport, outside of watching family or friends, she pays to go to watch the best of the best, the 2nd best or the also rans, but the best. For her participation was key, and female sport was far too important to live or die based on the salary people earned, and no matter what that was she was unlikely to go to watch the girls.

btw., That psych was the person who taught me the "Jedi mind trick" to treat the female version of sport as a different sport and therefore you can't / won't judge it relative to the men. AFLW is not AFL, never was never will be!