by danarubin | Mar 11, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ In the spring of 1883, Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of the mighty Trinity Church in Manhattan, launched a series of weekly lectures to share from the pulpit his vision of “Christian womanhood.” Outraged by his narrow, deeply conservative interpretation of...
by danarubin | Mar 10, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1993, author Bette Bao Lord testified to the U.S. House of Representatives, arguing that human rights and freedom are not Western values, but universal ones. Born in Shanghai raised in Brooklyn, Bette Bao Lord has explored the...
by danarubin | Mar 9, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 2017, human rights attorney Amal Clooney used her voice to address a United Nations event about the crimes of ISIS. By her side was her client — human rights activist Nadia Murad Basee Taha. Six months earlier, Clooney had spoken at...
by danarubin | Mar 5, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ A chance meeting on a cruise ship with the famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova in 1928 changed the direction of Rukmini Devi Arundale’s life. The great Pavlova urged her young admirer to study classical Indian dance, which had fallen out of favor....
by danarubin | Mar 4, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ It was three years ago today that we learned the words “inclusion rider.” The #metoo movement against sexual abuse and harassment had burst into public awareness the previous fall, following the exposure of repeated, widespread abuse by...
