'All we are is a microcosm of society. Women are still so far behind.' Via Reuters
NEW YORK, Oct 17 - Nearly 50 years after Billie Jean King and the so-called"Original Nine" began their campaign for equal prize money in tennis, the 12-times Grand Slam winner said much more progress was needed in gender equity in sport.
"You look at all the years of soccer, of baseball, all these different sports, they didn't encourage us to go into baseball, they told us to go into softball," King told Reuters."They wouldn't let us run the marathon in the Olympics until 1984.Appearing at a Women's Sports Foundation event on Wednesday, where the U.S.
"All we are is a microcosm of society," said King, who founded the WSF."Women are still so far behind." Megan Rapinoe, who won the Golden Boot and the Golden Ball with her World Cup champion team in July, told Reuters she hoped a settlement with U.S. Soccer was possible, but that she and her group were prepared for a fight.
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