Tory Burch and the legendary Billie Jean King sat down with Vogue to chat about, the 50th anniversary of the historic Title IX law which revolutionized women’s sports and their exciting new tennis collaboration.
Moments before their rousing appearance together to wrap up the Tory Burch Foundation’s third Embrace Ambition summit in Manhattan yesterday, Tory Burch and the legendary Billie Jean King sat down with…as well as the 50th anniversary of the historic Title IX law which revolutionized women’s sports—and their exciting new tennis collaboration.Through mutual friends. I’ve had a tennis group for maybe 15 years with a few friends, and Billie is an honorable member.
We’re approaching the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX—37 words tucked inside of the Educational Amendments Act of 1972 that had absolutely nothing to say about athletics, but which, slowly and eventually, led to a revolution in the funding of sports for women. Young women are growing up today in a world that had already been shaped by Title IX, but Billie Jean, you’ve lived and played on both sides.Yeah—I was pre-Title IX.
Senator Birch Bayh told me, in 2007, in Cleveland: “Billie? You know the word ‘activity’? We couldn’t make up our mind whether to leave it in or take it out.” Andthe reason women have sports scholarships. “Thank God we left it in,” he told me. “We had no idea the effect it would have on sports for women.” He was such a feminist; he was so excited. His wife couldn’t go to the University of Virginia Law School because of her gender.Oh, yeah—I was for it before it was a thing.
It’s an amazing story, really: Dr. Sandler basically gathered examples of discrimination from universities across the country and shared her research with Representative Green—stories of colleges that had a budget of $90,000 for men’s sports and $200 for women’s sports; women who weren’t paid to teach at schools because their husbands got a salary, or who were harassed out of engineering programs, or who were told they were too pretty to take difficult classes.
To bring Title IX back for a moment, Dr. Sandler’s initial spur to pursue what became Title IX was that she had finished up her Ed.D. at the University of Maryland, in 1969, and was told she wouldn’t be hired there for a full-time teaching job because she came on “too strong for a woman.
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