This year marks the 50th anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the law that opened all educational programs, including sports, to girls in the United States. Hear from one of its most tireless advocates: Billie Jean King.
that the passage of Title IX did open important doors, and you knew it was going to be a long haul to keep those doors open. That was one reason you founded the Women’s Sports Foundation. Can you tell me about the Foundation?: We fought to get Title IX. A lot of athletes were actually involved in trying to get that done, truly trying to tell them why it’s so important from a sports point of view, but also from education.
The reason I wanted to beat Bobby [Riggs]—which was ’73, one year after Title IX was passed on June 23, 1972—was to start to change the hearts and minds of people to match the legislation of Title IX. As we know, to change hearts and minds to match legislation isn’t that easy sometimes. So, I thought it was very important that I had to beat him for a lot of reasons, but it wasn’t about a tennis match. It was about social change, and I knew that.
I just started to be free and started to not measure my words with my mom and dad and be able to talk about my partner Ilana and say, “Oh, we’re going here. We’re going there, you know, or we love each other,” or whatever. I just talked to her like I used to talk about Larry when I was married to a male, and it’s really, it’s amazing how the truth does set you free. There are consequences to everything though, but I’ve learned that with tennis.
We need women to support women’s sports, especially Title IX babies. Women who went to college on a sports scholarship should be absolutely trying to figure out how to always help with season tickets. It’s been harder on us because we never had the income. We’re still at 77 cents on the dollar, which is not good. A lot of times as a single mother raising her children, obviously she’s having to raise them with less money. It’s a challenge. So, we need to get women’s pay to be equal.
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