DREAMS OF FLIGHT

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In addition to her Hollywood career, Mullins works with a number of women's organizations, including the Women's Sports Foundation, founded in 1974 by tennis great Billie Jean King. Mullins served as president from 2007 to 2009, and remains a trustee."It's galvanizing to see that we do, in society, value our daughters, and that's been the most extraordinary thing in my work with the Women's Sports Foundation," she said. "We have the first generation of dads now who grew up under Title IX. They're dads with daughters, and they call the foundation because they're horrified that their son gets a brand-new uniform for baseball from the school budget and plays on a beautifully manicured field, while their daughter has to have bake sales and car washes to raise money for her new uniform, and gets the lesser-quality playing field. They're shocked and upset that their daughters would get less funds from the institutions that they pay their tax dollars to than their son does. And so we see the needle move much more quickly when it's not just women raising their hand saying, 'Hey, this isn't fair,' but when you have everyone in society saying, 'Hey, this isn't fair.' "