for more on this i spoke with dr bonnie morris, an expert on women's sports history at the universityrnalist and author covering women's equality. let's start there with the issue of tennis. the men and women get paid the same prize money at grand slam events, but not other events necessarily, but the sponsorship deals vary widely, and that's in a sport where some women are as big if not bigger stars than their male counterparts — dr bonnie morris, the path of progress moves slowly for women in sport, doesn't it? it's very slow. i second everything your previous speaker, alex, had to say, and i was interested to hear her praise for the progress of women's soccer in the united states, we are certainly behind in so many other areas of equity. tennis has had a bit of a head start because of the dynamic push by billiejean king and her very famous battle of the sexes victory over bobby riggs which is about to celebrate a golden anniversary, 50 years in late september. sometimes you really need one advocate to open the door to look at in equity, but i also think we have a pattern in the us