by danarubin | Mar 18, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ In her many public speeches, author, political activist, and behind-the-scenes suffrage strategist Helen Hamilton Gardener took on the hypocrisies and double standards built into gender roles. On March 18 1893, at the World’s Congress of...
by danarubin | Mar 17, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ When Rose Pastor Stokes stood up to speak at a society women’s dinner in Kansas City on March 17, 1918, no one was expecting sparks to fly. But that’s what happened when she denounced America’s economic system, praised revolutionary Russia, and...
by danarubin | Mar 16, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Mary Baker Eddy had suffered from poor health since childhood. But she experienced a dramatic turnaround after reading a Bible passage. That led her to become a popular healer and pastor who preached that illness was an illusion that could be...
by danarubin | Mar 13, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ When you think of the greatest speakers in American history, who comes to mind? Probably Winston Churchill, MLK, JFK, maybe Ronald Reagan — and justifiably so. They were all remarkable orators whose powerful language and delivery expressed gravity...
by danarubin | Mar 13, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ True to her nickname, “The Agitator,” Nora O’Reilly stirred things up when she spoke in public — in support of working-class women, women’s suffrage, and trade unionism. Using colorful and often incendiary language, she delivered speeches in meeting...
by danarubin | Mar 11, 2020 | 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 and a Columbia University trustee, launched a series of weekly lectures to share his vision of “Christian womanhood.” Outraged by his narrow, restrictive...
