After the league folded, women still were struggling with equal rights. Women were not getting equal pay at their jobs and married women were encouraged to take up jobs like a teacher. Women would campaign and boycott against not being paid equally, as a result of this sexist act. As time went on, women were given more opportunities but still not as many as men. Women have only conquered more from there. The league broke the gender barrier and led a path for the new generation of women today.
Angela Stanford, 2018, The New York Times
A federal law, Title IX, was put into action to give women and men equal opportunities in sports and education in 1972. This law was a breaking point for women in athletics and in life.
There was also the Battle of the Sexes, a tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King, which broke a gender barrier in sports. The reason for this match was Billie Jean King wanted equal pay and more opportunities for women.
As a result of this league, women’s roles and accomplishments have been looked at differently. Although the gender barrier still remains, Philip K. Wrigley took action and led a path that represents a different outlook on women today.
The women's U.S Olympic soccer team, who has won four World Cups, makes only a third of what the men's team makes and they haven't won one World Cup. Also in basketball the pay gap is worse. WNBA players make an average of 71,635 dollars and the men make 6.4 million dollars.
Although women’s rights were not equal, there has been many more women’s successes in the world since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League took start.
The Ladies Professional Golf Association was started for the first time in 1950. This was a huge step in women’s athletics.
Battle of the Sexes, 1973, The Hollywood Reporter
Douglass College Math Club, 1940, New Jersey Digital Highway
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" I think it took a while, but I think the AAGPBL, more specifically the women who played in the league, did help push along Title IX. By the time Title IX is being talked about, those women are talking about playing in the league and how there needs to be equal opportunity for women to play sports."- Cassidy Lent, a worker at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
