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...
by danarubin | Mar 11, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ In the spring of 1883, Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of the mighty Trinity Church in Manhattan, launched a series of weekly lectures to share from the pulpit his vision of “Christian womanhood.” Outraged by his narrow, deeply conservative interpretation of...
by danarubin | Mar 10, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1993, author Bette Bao Lord testified to the U.S. House of Representatives, arguing that human rights and freedom are not Western values, but universal ones. Born in Shanghai raised in Brooklyn, Bette Bao Lord has explored the...
by danarubin | Mar 9, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 2017, human rights attorney Amal Clooney used her voice to address a United Nations event about the crimes of ISIS. By her side was her client — human rights activist Nadia Murad Basee Taha. Six months earlier, Clooney had spoken at...
