by danarubin | Aug 16, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She was a pioneer for women in sports, one of the greatest women’s tennis players of all time. For more than 20 years, she dominated the tennis world. Through the years, she’s used her visibility and voice to speak out for gender...
by danarubin | Aug 9, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ “My beautiful radium,” she called it. Marie Skłodowska Curie and her husband spent four years extracting radium from a load of ore found in a mine in Bohemia, then published their discovery at the French Academy of Sciences. She became...
by danarubin | Jul 22, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ She was the first female lecturer in America, at least the first we know of. Perhaps there were others, maybe other colonial or Native American women who spoke to their communities — but if so, we don’t have their words. But we do have the...
by danarubin | Jul 18, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Today’s Google’s doodle in India celebrates the 160th birthday of one of that country’s earliest feminists, and the first female practicing physician in South Asia, Kadambini Ganguly. She was in the forefront of a number of social...
by danarubin | Jul 17, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ We say farewell to a remarkable civil rights leader, Gloria Richardson— a woman who used her powerful voice for the Movement. She passed away July 15 at age 99. During a three-year period, she led protests against racial segregation and used her...
by danarubin | Jul 15, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Half a century ago, the history of art was a story told by men. There were no women’s studies programs at universities. Few books about women’s art. And in art museums, only a small percentage of art and new acquisitions were by women....
