She won her first Grand Slam in 1998, but it wasn't until 2006 that Williams got the same Wimbledon prize as Roger Federer.
So that is where the media can play a big role.” “If you walk down the street and talk to someone right now and ask them, ‘What is the pay gap and data when it comes to pay equity?’ And no one is really thinking about it as much as they should and having these conversations. If you’re a minority, if you’re living out of the country, it gets even worse.” It doesn’t happen overnight.” She hopes to recruit more participants in the initiative, she said, telling King “there’s got to be more organizations. In an interview with CBS This Morning, Venus Williams explained that it was her first Grand Slam win at the age of 16 that gave her a “rude awakening” into the pay gap between men and women in America.
The tennis superstar had her first "rude awakening" in 1998 at just 16 years old when she won her first Grand Slam and received a markedly different prize sum ...
“It’s a very important role that I never thought I’d play,” she continued. “I’m just very happy that as an African American woman I can speak to this and make this known.” “If you’re a minority, [or] living out of the country, it gets even worse.”