by danarubin | Mar 20, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Her speech was drafted on a plane from LaGuardia to O’Hare. When Betty Friedan, author of the bestselling The Feminine Mystique, stepped to the podium at a NOW convention on the evening of March 20, 1970, to deliver her final speech as NOW...
by danarubin | Mar 19, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Just ten days before the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s was set to meet for its annual convention in 1903, the women’s suffrage movement was dealt another blow. In New Hampshire, 60 percent of voters — all men, of course — went to...
by danarubin | Mar 18, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ In her many public speeches, author, political activist, and behind-the-scenes suffrage strategist Helen Hamilton Gardener took on the hypocrisies and double standards built into gender roles. On March 18 1893, at the World’s Congress of...
by danarubin | Mar 17, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ When Rose Pastor Stokes stood up to speak at a society women’s dinner in Kansas City on March 17, 1918, no one was expecting sparks to fly. But that’s what happened when she denounced America’s economic system, praised revolutionary Russia, and...
by danarubin | Mar 16, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Mary Baker Eddy had suffered from poor health since childhood. But she experienced a dramatic turnaround after reading a Bible passage. That led her to become a popular healer and pastor who preached that illness was an illusion that could be...
