Womens Professional Tennis

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Abstract

Recent eras have seen drastic changes in pay rate of female professionals which results a substantial narrow down of the gender gap Still , there are a number of examples manifest that the male are being paid extensively than female . Betrand and Hillock (2001 (1 ) once opined that the highest paid executives at the top corporate firms are males the female constituency of only 2 .5 . Such discrimination can

be seen in the sphere of sports also . The recent years have witnessed a number of debates over the unequal pay rate in women professional tennis . Even though women 's tennis is popular as men 's yet they are not awarded the same pay rate in winning the title discrimination exists in field of endorsements and ads also . The fact is that all the women are capable of asserting their ability to achieve equality . In this context , the importance of Equal pay Act 1963 can not be discarded which enumerates the protection for men and women who perform substantially the same work in the same establishment from suffering wage discrimination based on gender . It should be noted that the liberal feminists always opposed the bias in pay as their view is women have the ability to maintain their equality through being responsible for their own actions and

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1 . Betrand , Marrianne , Hallock Kevin .F , The gender gap in top corporate jobs , Industrial Labor relations review , pp .3-21 , 2001

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choices (Brookes ,2008 (2 .In this , we shall analyze the issue regarding unequal pay rate in women professional tennis and its relevancy in the present days and the scope and value of liberal feminist theory and also we shall scrutinize the importance and arguments of liberal feminism in the context of the equal pay for the women , particularly in women professional tennis

Liberal Feminism

The liberal feminist view is related to the some kind of political view that the government can not involve in the private affairs of the citizens (John Stuart Mill , 25 ,LF (3 )The main belief of the liberal feminism is the personal rights should predominate over the aspects of social goods . They are the adamant speakers of freedom of the women from the oppression of the gender . This principle of liberal feminism is similar to extentialist feminist theory which specifies the equality of right and freedom between the man and woman

The Liberal feminist theory has its own identity among other feminist theories like , Radical , Marxist , socialist and extentialist . It is an individualistic form and it focus on those women have their ability to manage their equality by holding their choices and

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2 . Brookes , Lucy , What is Liberal feminism , Publ . by Social Sciences-General Community , 2008

3 . Mill , Stuart , John , The subjection of women , The MIT press , 2001 3 Equal pay in women professional Tennis

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