Serena Williams comes from the most successful family in tennis, but she hasn't forgotten where she came from. Williams wrote a personal piece, published by Fortune Magazine, bemoaning the lack of equality in how men and women are paid, and going further to assert that for black women the gender gap is even higher, saying that black women make 63 cents for every dollar a man earns (as opposed to the often cited statistic of women making 82 cents to every man's dollar).
Williams wrote an impassioned plea in the essay, saying that "black women have been conditioned to think they are less than [men].