Published: August 06, 2018
AFLW players must say no when the league refuses to play fair, as tennis players did in the 1970s
Tennis is often lauded as the most gender equitable of sports: a contemporary reality that owes everything to a guerrilla past. With the birth of professional tennis in 1968, Bille Jean King appeared in the Wimbledon Championships alongside Rod Laver, expecting to receive an equal pay cheque. Instead, she took home £750, while he earned £2,000.
Just a couple of years later, things were worse, not better. Men were being paid 12 times women’s wages, while many tournaments banned women from competing at all. “We were in big trouble if we wanted to keep playing tennis,” said King of the time.
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