French Open "equal prize money" not really equal

The organizers of the French Open recently announced that they were awarding equal prize money to men and women this year. That sounds good, but it turns out that the equal purses are for the winners only, not the rest of the players. While I was in Charleston, French player Nathalie Dechy was interviewed about the deceptive language in the announcement, and she spoke of the need for the entire purse to be equal.