by danarubin | Mar 30, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Isabella Beecher Hooker, it was perfectly clear. She hammered home the point again and again: women are people. When the framers of the US Constitution used the words “the people,” she told her audience at the International Council of Women on...
by danarubin | Mar 27, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Helen Keller had spoken to many state legislatures, but this was her first appearance in Congress. She was there to support a federally-financed program to create Braille books for blind adults. “Books are the eyes of the blind,” she told the...
by danarubin | Mar 26, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ The first black woman to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm delivered her so-called “maiden” speech on the floor of Congress on March 26, 1969. It was a rhetorical thunderbolt delivered directly to President Nixon and her fellow legislators. She...
by danarubin | Mar 25, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Even before she began to speak, she got a standing ovation. It was the morning of March 25, 1888, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton stepped to the podium to welcome women from around the world to the first international conference on women’s rights. It was...
by danarubin | Mar 24, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ In the spring of 1782, with the Revolutionary War in full tilt, Deborah Sampson dressed up like a man and enlisted in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment. Her disguise undetected, she fought bravely and honorably — and shed blood for her country....
