Billie Jean King

countless social, economic, cultural, and legal issues since the 1800s all throughout the 1900s. A great amount of those issues revolve around diversity and, more specifically, women’s equity in sports. The “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match where Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs is one of the most prominent events from the 20th century that made a significant mark on sports and the sport business world, particularly on women’s involvement in sports. The “Battle of the Sexes” was a key victory for

Zaharias, the All-American Professional Girls Baseball League, Billie Jean King, and the 1999 United States Women’s World Cup

Erika Becerra English 201 March 31, 2017 Equality in Sports After winning the 2015 Women’s World Cup, the United States’ Women National team earned $2 million for winning while the Men’s 2014 World Cup Champion Germany won $35 million. In the 2014 PGA (Professional Golf Association) tour the prize money total was $340 million and 2015 LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association) tour prize pool was $61.1 million for winning. (Women’s Sports Foundation, 2015) The question many female athletes ask

woman, Billie Jean King, could beat her opponent, Bobby Riggs in a tennis match. Against all odds, Billie Jean King was crowned with the victory. This legendary moment in history was important for the sport of tennis, but also the little girls everywhere that were not allowed to participate in athletics like their male peers. In light of “Title IX”, an amendment that promoted equality and the prohibition of gender and race discrimination in any school or Federal-funded sport or activity, Billie Jean

The equality of payment for both women and men Thanks to Venus Williams and Billie Jean King fight at Wimbledon, women now have equal pay at tournaments. Venus and Serena Williams faced each other in an intense match at the Wimbledon tournament that ended in victory for younger sister Serena. Venus Williams has fought and helped win a long battle for women athletes. According to ESPNW, Williams made her first public mention of the need for grand slam events to award equal prize money to men and women

events that brought attention to the wage gap was the Billie Jean King vs Bobby Riggs Tennis match in 1973. This has been referred to as the “Battle of the Sexes”. Billie Jean King was a women’s tennis champion who was fighting for increased recognition of women’s tennis and for an increase in women's pay in tennis, equal to that of men. She was challenged to a tennis match by Bobby Riggs, who had been a men’s tennis champion. Billie Jean King won, in three straight sets which made people realize

I think it is important to take time and actually think about all of the advancements women have made. If you think about it we would not have some of the things we have today due to the women in past standing up for they believe in. There is a quote that I cannot remember off the top of my head, but I know that it is along the lines of saying a woman in general is powerful, but once she realizes how truly powerful she is, you better watch out. “Like Mary Richards, American women in the 1970s were

“There was a time when Billie Jean King was always in the news.” Robert Drane writes about the uphills of women's tennis for Inside Sport. Being a respected tennis athlete as a girl in the 1970s was all but easy, but Billie Jean King demanded the respect she deserved. Drane shows the readers that King altered the way women’s sports were looked at, which led to an even bigger movement in women’s equality. King had always been a huge feminist advocate and Drane writes about her strength as a player

political stance was Billie-Jean King, who fought for equal gender rights in sport. On September 20, 1973 Billie- Jean King took on men’s champion Bobby Riggs in a battle of the sexes tennis match. Riggs was known for criticizing women’s sports and female athletes . King stated, “I just had to play, Title IX (the ban on gender discrimination in federally funded educational program) had just passed, and I wanted to change the hearts and minds of people to match the legislation” . King beat Riggs in three

I was born on August 19th, 1934 in New York City, NY as Richard Raskind, the son of David Raskind and Sadie Muriel Bishop. I was also the younger brother to my sister, Michael. My parents both had their M.D.s, my father being an orthopedic surgeon and my mother a psychiatrist. Growing up my mother was the more dominant one in our family. She allowed me to dress up in my sisters clothing. As I got older, I began to become sexually confused. I confronted my mother about this and she prescribed psychiatric