Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King won the match against a male tennis champion named Bobby Riggs, and she became well-known because of this. Their game was given the title of the “Battle of the Sexes” and was also the storyline for the movie that had the same title. Billie Jean King announced and came out that she was gay. Billie Jean was the very first major female athlete to do this. She had been given a place in the International Tennis Hall of Fame last 1987. She was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. She made full advantage of her fame to create the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative in 2014. The aim of this was to help people embrace diversity at work.
Billie Jean King
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