Looking at tennis, a woman named Rosie Casals, who ranked number 3 in the world in her tennis playing days was also put through a time where women were not looked at for tennis. Tennis was not considered an open sport but when it became open women were heavily looked over by men, some events by a ratio of even more then 10 to 1.
"We knew this wasn't right," Casals said. "Men were getting organized. It was time for women, too. We started squawking."
She started to take a stand against the men of tennis and put in her efforts to make everything equal. The women's movement moved quickly throughout the 60's making it so they could do something about what they were fighting up against.
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