by danarubin | Oct 11, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On April 19, 1935, a young Black woman stepped up to the podium at a women’s conference in Turkey. She spoke about her own experience coming from the Caribbean island of Jamaica, a British colony once dependent on a sugar and slave-based...
by danarubin | Oct 7, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Fiona Hill was preparing for the most high-stake assignment of her life. On November 21, 2019, responding to a subpoena, the British-American foreign affairs specialist was called as a witness before a US House committee as part of the impeachment...
by danarubin | Oct 6, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Fannie Lou Hamer spent most of her life as a sharecropper in rural Mississippi. In 1962 civil rights workers came to the town of Ruleville to encourage African Americans to vote. On August 31, Hamer and 17 others traveled by bus to the country...
by danarubin | Oct 4, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ “It is only after a great deal of agonizing consideration that I am able to talk of these unpleasant matters . . . ” Those were the words of American lawyer Anita Faye Hill three decades ago, when she calmly stood before the US Senate...
by danarubin | Oct 1, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ When the political parties in Germany agree to a new government, Angela Merkel will step down as Chancellor. Trained as a quantum chemist, she spent her first 35 years living in East Germany, until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Then she left behind...
