Sex sells in women’s tennis. After all, there aren’t many professional sports out there where women wear short skirts and skimpy shirts. Officials of the British Grand Slam tournament which ended this past weekend have openly admitted that women were chosen for Center Court matches based on how “hot” their bodies were, not how “hot” [...]

July 7, 2009 by rachel | Tags: Billie Jean King, female sports, gender inequality, sexism, tennis, wimbledon, women's rights, Women's sports Foundation | 1 Comment »

Today’s Date: April 20, 2009 Claim to Fame: Amateau, an immigrant of Jewish descent from Turkey, worked diligently on behalf of the under-represented in America during his time. Just to name a few of the HUGE things he did: He created and directed a voter registration drive among immigrants from all backgrounds. As head of [...]

April 20, 2009 by akshay | Tags: Amaeatu, b-days, discrimination, equal representation, Israel, Jean Amateau, Palestine, Turkey | 1 Comment »

Hi, Breakthrough is proud, excited, nervous, and did we say excited to bring you “b-listed.” After a lot of thinking, talking and asking the million $ nonprofit web 2.0 question,”should we have a blog, or shouldn’t we?” And after a lot of “why not, we create web 2.0 tools, we’re smart, we’re savvy, we can [...]

March 3, 2009 by admin | Tags: b-listed, breakthrough, first post, human rights, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »