Exclusive: Tennis great Billie Jean King has signed to narrate a docuseries that will tell stories of pay inequities, motherhood, LGBTQ+ rights, and intersectionality and diversity in women’s sports. Glamour and Condé Nast Entertainment, along with King and Little Monster Films, are producing a series to show the trailblazers who tried to bridge the appalling disparity of pay and standing that female athletes past and present have endured.
The jumping off point was a Glamour cover that focused on how a fed-up King and a group of top female tennis players called the Original 9 tried to bridge the pay gap between the scraps they were getting, and the big paydays limited to their male counterparts. The 27-year old King was top player in her sport where the entire women’s prize pool was $5000. King led a group that included her doubles partner Rosie Casals, Nancy Richey, Julie Heldman, Valerie Ziegenfuss,...
The jumping off point was a Glamour cover that focused on how a fed-up King and a group of top female tennis players called the Original 9 tried to bridge the pay gap between the scraps they were getting, and the big paydays limited to their male counterparts. The 27-year old King was top player in her sport where the entire women’s prize pool was $5000. King led a group that included her doubles partner Rosie Casals, Nancy Richey, Julie Heldman, Valerie Ziegenfuss,...
- 10/21/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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