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    Billie Jean King, Emma Stone on '73 match and the enduring fight for equality

    by By Tre'vell Anderson, Los Angeles Times Sep 06, 2017 4 minutes

    To former tennis champ Billie Jean King, the 1970s were "a very exciting and tenuous time." After all, while women couldn't get a credit card in their own name without having it cosigned by a man and women at best were making 50 cents to the men's dollar, Title IX did become law in 1972, prohibiting sex discrimination in programs receiving federal aid.

    Moreover, during the height of the women's movement in the '70s, King solidified her place in history with another crack in that barrier. Already the top women's tennis player, she took on former tennis pro Bobby Riggs, whose boastful taunts about women belonging in the kitchen (and bedroom) had deepened the gender divide

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