How Billie Jean King Led the Equal Pay for Play Battle

Billie Jean King's push for equal prize money in 1973 will be ... - KSNT

That led the U.S. Tennis Association to make the 1973 U.S. Open the first sporting event to offer equal prize money to female and male ...

8 Times Women in Sports Fought for Equality - The New York Times

A feminist tennis champion wins the Battle of the Sexes ... The year 1973 was a big one for Billie Jean King, the trailblazing tennis star. She ...

Billie Jean King's push for equal prize money in 1973 will ... - CBS 42

That led the U.S. Tennis Association to make the 1973 U.S. Open the first sporting event to offer equal prize money to female and male ...

Billie Jean King's push for equal prize money in 1973 will be ...

That led the U.S. Tennis Association to make the 1973 U.S. Open the first sporting event to offer equal prize money to female and male ...

Billie Jean King's push for equal prize money in 1973 will be ... - KSAT

That led the U.S. Tennis Association to make the 1973 U.S. Open the first sporting event to offer equal prize money to female and male ...

Billie Jean King recalls what Bobby Riggs told her after their historic ...

The exhibition served as an opportunity for King to help advance the women's rights movement and bring attention to the gender disparity in ...

Julia Gets Wise with Billie Jean King - Shortform

King led the Women's Tennis Association, promoting gender equality. She fought against discrimination, according to Julia Louis-Dreyfus and King ...

Women's tennis: A small step at the US Open 50 years ago was a ...

In 1968, Billie Jean King had won the first Open era Wimbledon ... equal pay demand. They created the Virginia Slims Invitational circuit.

Opinion: 50 Years Into a Fight Spear-Headed by Billie Jean King ...

Billie Jean King became a ray of hope after she transformed tennis with her fight for equal pay in tennis. But, is equality really achieved?

Tennis and equality: Progress, but there is still some way to go 50 ...

The American hard-court major led the way in equal prize money thanks to the efforts of Billie-Jean King, but in many smaller tournaments ...

Equal Pay in Sports Began 50 Years Ago, Due to Billie Jean King

Fifty-one years ago, Billie Jean King learned that her $10,000 prize money for winning the U.S. Open was $15,000 less than what Ilie Nastase ...

Billie Jean King's Impact on Equality | by allie emert - Medium

When Billie first started playing tennis to make a living women's tennis was still considered an amateur sport. Women were payed “under the ...

Billie Jean King's 1973 push for equal prize money ... - NBC Chicago

That led the U.S. Tennis Association to make the 1973 U.S. Open the first sporting event to offer equal prize money to female and male ...

Facts and figures: Women in sport - UN Women

Pay, prize money, and sponsorship deals · In 1973, tennis led the way to equal prize money when Billie Jean King founded the Women's Tennis Association.

How the Great Billie Jean King Challenged the Patriarchy

Then I told him I had lined up a sponsor—a Bristol-Myers brand, Ban deodorant—to kick in the extra $55,000 to achieve the equal prize money we ...

Looking Beyond the “Battle of the Sexes” - Pieces of History

Billie Jean King is a record-breaking tennis champion. She also is a pioneer in gender equality, an outspoken advocate for equal pay for female athletes.

The past, present and future of women's tennis | The GIST

— Billie Jean King, ahead of the Battle of the Sexes match. Spoiler ... The fight for equal pay. BJK's iconic victory inspired ...

Billie Jean King's push for equal prize money in 1973 will be ...

... play at all the next year — and added that no other women would ... Equal pay came much later in the other Grand Slam tournaments, but ...

Isn't it unfair that female tennis players get the same pay as the men ...

Quite a while back now, the WTA made a stand on this issue and won equal pay in tourneys that feature both men and women playing as a concession ...

Billie Jean King: Long way to go in Battle of the Sexes - CNN

Billie Jean King has been a pioneer in the fight for equal rights in sport since starting her professional tennis career in 1959. She was ...