Working from home today so am watching the bowls on BBC2. It appears (you'd be forgiven some doubts from looking at one of them) to be the women's final.
Anyway, why do you need separate women's and men's tournaments in a sport like bowls? Bowls, darts, snooker, shooting / archery etc. - surely it's a level-playing field?
Obviously you can't have women competing with men in professional football, tennis, rugby etc. as they have no chance at all but with the likes of the above, I don't get why there are two distinct tours (and obviously if there are distinct tours then there ought to be about 24, to respect all the genders).