Amazon.com description: Product Description: For some time, women have comprised more than half of the American population, and yet, before the passage of Title IX in 1972, the public did not take women’s athletics seriously. By highlighting some of the bravest and most talented female athletes in US history, this book examines the role that women’s athletics have played in the fight for equal rights. From “The Battle of the Sexes,” a tennis match that pitted women’s champion Billie Jean King against men’s champion Bobby Riggs, to the battle waged by WNBA champion Brittney Griner against bullying and homophobia, this book shows how heroic female athletes have advanced the cause for equal rights, and discusses the work that remains to be done.