by danarubin | Apr 13, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She was an infant when she and her parents fled Nazi Germany in 1939. They were among the passengers, mostly Jewish refugees, on the ill-fated journey of the ocean liner MS St. Louis that became known as the Voyage of the Damned. The refugees tried...
by danarubin | Apr 9, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ History is full of examples of women who’ve stepped up and spoken out for causes they believed in. Thousands of them, from all walks of life, from around the world, throughout time. But you wouldn’t know it from the history books. I know,...
by danarubin | Apr 8, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ I’m a longtime speech coach, and in the past few years, I’ve made a discovery: most collections of the greatest speeches in history include very few by women. Whenever women’s speeches are in the mix, they’re almost always heavily outnumbered by...
by danarubin | Apr 5, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ In her column in The Wall Street Journal this week, speechwriter Peggy Noonan says people have been asking her for an example of a powerful and inspiring speech for hard times. Her top candidate: Elizabeth I’s speech to her troops at...
by danarubin | Mar 31, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s ill-fated plan to pack the Supreme Court with justices favorable to his New Deal legislation caused a political firestorm in 1937. Critics accused him of undermining American democracy. One if his most outspoken critics...
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...
