by danarubin | Aug 10, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ A new movie, “Radioactive,” tells the story of the scientist Marie Skłodowska Curie and her passion for scientific discovery. Rosamund Pike plays the role of the brilliant scientist admirably, but the movie doesn’t quite capture...
by danarubin | Jul 12, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She was a talented singer who at age 16 joined a Māori cultural troupe, traveling, playing piano, and performing throughout in New Zealand and abroad. In 1949, her second husband died in a car accident. Widowed and pregnant, she decided to run for...
by danarubin | Jul 8, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Yes, I’m talking about the marketplace value of a woman’s voice. What is it worth to your organization? And why should you invest in your female talent to speak more powerfully and persuasively? Over the past 18 months,...
by danarubin | Jul 4, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She was an orphan by the age of three and raised by relatives in Scotland. She fell in love with the radical promise of the American Revolution, and by the age of 23 was on a ship bound for New York harbor. Seven years later, in 1825, she became an...
by danarubin | Jun 30, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She was born in rural South Carolina, just a decade after the Emancipation Proclamation, to parents who had been enslaved. She was the fifteenth of seventeen children. None of her siblings could read or write — they all worked in the cotton fields....
by danarubin | Jun 15, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She grew up on the South Side of Chicago, a city divided by race. When she was eight, an angry protester threw a brick through the window of her family home. Her beloved father, disillusioned by the failings of America to achieve racial progress,...
