Professor Moore
HPE 125
14 August 2016
Since before time women have struggled with equality rights. Whether it has been in sports, politics, education, or simple every day life. In the book, Game, Set Match by Susan Ware, Billie Jean King struggles to compete with equality in her tennis career. King’s advocacy for women’s equality has also been influential for the women who are associated with sports. In Billie Jean King’s life she had to undergo personal obstacles to gain any amount of women equality. However, one of the first obstacles King had to face was when she was starting college. King was raised in a fairly poor family in the 1940s (Ware 16) so money was an issue when it came to college, sports, and traveling for