by danarubin | Oct 6, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Fannie Lou Hamer spent most of her life as a sharecropper in rural Mississippi. In 1962 civil rights workers came to the town of Ruleville to encourage African Americans to vote. On August 31, Hamer and 17 others traveled by bus to the country...
by danarubin | Oct 4, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ “It is only after a great deal of agonizing consideration that I am able to talk of these unpleasant matters . . . ” Those were the words of American lawyer Anita Faye Hill three decades ago, when she calmly stood before the US Senate...
by danarubin | Oct 1, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ When the political parties in Germany agree to a new government, Angela Merkel will step down as Chancellor. Trained as a quantum chemist, she spent her first 35 years living in East Germany, until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Then she left behind...
by danarubin | Sep 30, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She’s one of the world’s most respected business leaders, and one of only a handful of people of color to run an S&P 500 company. Every organization wants her on the board. So when Indra Nooyi says something is broken, corporate...
by danarubin | Sep 9, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Carrie Nation gets a bum rap. Mostly she’s remembered as a self-righteous crusader and crank who burst into saloons, hurling rocks and smashing everything up in a misbegotten campaign to root out the evils of alcohol. But that does an enormous...
by danarubin | Aug 31, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She was a legendary exotic performer who it up stages across Europe. She slithered across the stage wearing only a banana skirt and a string of pearls. She was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture. Less well known is her lifetime...
