Sometimes it takes a sports event to remind us of milestones in American history.
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King, who won the U.S. Open in 1972, earned $10,000 for the victory—$15,000 less than the men’s champion. When she threatened not to play the next year, it sparked the movement for equal pay in the World Tennis Association . This happened nine years after the Equal Pay Act was signed into law, protecting workers from pay discrimination on the basis of race.
But Obama said of the champion’s paycheck: “This is about how women are seen and valued in the world.”
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