It's not right to make noise about one thing when that thing is actually something else. Last year and recently during Women's Day, the WSL made and continued a great campaign in which He pointed out that from then on Prize money would be equal for men and women at events “controlled” by the WSL.

That “controlled” is an important nuance that was not in the title and to which no authority referred, this was published in DUKE some concepts on this subject (see here). The QS 6000 currently underway in Newcastle, Australia is a good example.

The motto was “equal by nature,” the headline was that the WSL “announces equality in prize money,” and the world’s leading media and non-endemic sportsmen repeated the headline.

But starting from the basis that the women's CT has 16 + 2 women and the men's 32 + 4, talking about equality becomes ridiculous, but digging just a little deeper there are more details to take into account.

We wrote at the time: “It is frustrating to see that these women, who have been through the QS, Lakey, Tatiana, Steph Gilmore, Carissa and others, are celebrating this as a victory. Yes, it is great that someone who previously earned $65.000 is now going to earn $100.000, but you cannot present this as gender equality when the majority of WSL surfers are not going to be getting it.”

In practice this translates to what is seen here, for the QS 6.000 awards ceremony which will conclude this weekend in Australia:

Cleaned up: 
1st: 20.000 - 1st: 12.000
2st: 8.000 - 2st: 6.000
3st: 3.800 - 3st: 3.000
5st: 2.500 - 5st: 1.900
9st: 2.000 - 9st: 1.250
17st: 1.800 - 17st: 900
25st: 1.300 - 25st: 750
37st: 1.200 - 37st: 600
49st: 550 - 49st: 0
73rd: 450 73rd: 0

Placing 17th gives 1050 points for women and men, but for the former this translates into $900 and for the latter $1.800, double! Placing 1250th is $2.000 for women, $20.000 for men. And the scale stays more or less like this until victory, $12.000 for men and $73 for women, or until 49rd or XNUMXth, when one wins and the other doesn't.

There will be people who are happy about this happening (some say that there are fewer of them and that it would not be right to earn the same amount for winning fewer series – this is what the WSL argued until not so long ago). Now, what is certainly not fair is to make a campaign talking about equality when things like this happen.

How can an entire campaign be created about equality when these things happen?

As has already been said here, this “reform” has accumulated more money for those who have more and left the 500 who need it the same. And with all this, an equality that does not exist is celebrated.