by danarubin | Mar 27, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Helen Keller had spoken to many state legislatures, but this was her first appearance in Congress. She was there to support a federally-financed program to create Braille books for blind adults. “Books are the eyes of the blind,” she told the...
by danarubin | Mar 26, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ The first black woman to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm delivered her so-called “maiden” speech on the floor of Congress on March 26, 1969. It was a rhetorical thunderbolt delivered directly to President Nixon and her fellow legislators. She...
by danarubin | Mar 25, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Even before she began to speak, she got a standing ovation. It was the morning of March 25, 1888, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton stepped to the podium to welcome women from around the world to the first international conference on women’s rights. It was...
by danarubin | Mar 24, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ In the spring of 1782, with the Revolutionary War in full tilt, Deborah Sampson dressed up like a man and enlisted in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment. Her disguise undetected, she fought bravely and honorably — and shed blood for her country....
by danarubin | Mar 20, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Her speech was drafted on a plane from LaGuardia to O’Hare. When Betty Friedan, author of the bestselling The Feminine Mystique, stepped to the podium at a NOW convention on the evening of March 20, 1970, to deliver her final speech as NOW...
by danarubin | Mar 19, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Just ten days before the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s was set to meet for its annual convention in 1903, the women’s suffrage movement was dealt another blow. In New Hampshire, 60 percent of voters — all men, of course — went to...
