Fordham Law Review Volume 89 Issue 1 Article 10 2020 SENATOR BIRCH BAYH’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO WOMEN’S RIGHTS Panel Panel This panel was held during the Symposium entitled Celebrating the Impact of Senator Birch Bayh: A Lasting Legacy on the Constitution and Beyond Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Panel Panel, SENATOR BIRCH BAYH’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO WOMEN’S RIGHTS, 89 Fordham L. Rev. 81 (2020). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol89/iss1/10 This Symposium is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Law Review by an authorized editor of FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. PANEL DISCUSSION SENATOR BIRCH BAYH’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO * WOMEN’S RIGHTS MODERATOR Linda Klein** PANELISTS Stephanie Gaitley Billie Jean King Kelly Krauskopf Jessica Neuwirth MS. KLEIN: These women, and what they do and what they have done, inspired so many others to succeed: to see things in ourselves, to encourage us to try, to let us know someone needs to be the first to open doors for all the others. In the words of our panelist Kelly Krauskopf, “Being first is all about earning it.” On September 20, 1973, I was in junior high school and everyone was talking about “women’s lib.” And everyone was talking about the big tennis match that was coming that night between our panelist, Billie Jean King, and Bobby Riggs.1 And the boys were teasing the girls—they were confident that Bobby Riggs was going to win.