by danarubin | Mar 22, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1802, Deborah Sampson Gannett stepped onto to a stage in Boston and gave a speech that would go down in history — that is, should have gone down in history — if history had acknowledged her. At the prestigious Federal-Street Theatre,...
by danarubin | Mar 19, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1880, a Native American woman of the Ute tribe took the witness stand in the nation’s capitol. Chipeta was the wife of a chief of the Uncompaghre Ute tribe, but she was born a Kiowa Apache. Chipeta means “white singing...
by danarubin | Mar 18, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Helen Hamilton Gardener took on 19th century hypocrisies and double standards in gender roles in her fiction, her essays, and her strategizing on behalf of woman’s suffrage. But on this day in 1893, she used her public voice. In a powerhouse...
by danarubin | Mar 16, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Mary Baker Eddy suffered from poor health since childhood. Growing up in New Hampshire, she was nearly an invalid. But she experienced a dramatic turnaround after reading a Bible passage — an experience that drove her to a period of intense Biblical...
by danarubin | Mar 12, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 2007, Wangari Maathai told an audience at the Royal Geographical Society and Botanic Gardens Conservation International why even the smallest gesture to improve the world matters. Wangari Maathai was a passionate advocate for the...
