by danarubin | Apr 19, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe who gave powerful voice and visibility to the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, passed away last week from brain cancer. She called herself simply Tamakawastewin —...
by danarubin | Apr 17, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Thanks to Google for today’s doodle that pays homage to Laura Bassi, a physicist and an academic, and a rarity in 18th century Europe: a female public intellectual. Despite restrictions on women’s role in society, Laura Maria Caterina...
by danarubin | Apr 16, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ No one has done more to research and champion the voices of women in history than Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. A professor at the University of Minnesota, she teaches and researches women in communication, rhetorical theory and criticism, and the rhetoric...
by danarubin | Mar 31, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1937, journalist Dorothy Thompson delivered a chilling, first-person account of the rise of Adolph Hitler. Speaking to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, she told how Hitler and his henchmen had methodically taken over the...
by danarubin | Mar 30, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ For Isabella Beecher Hooker, it was perfectly clear. Women are “people” — and therefore should be allowed to vote. #OTD in 1888, she hammered the point home again and again: women are people. And when the framers of the U.S. Constitution wrote, “We,...
by danarubin | Mar 29, 2021 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ On this day in 1946, Helen Gahagan Douglas took on Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare with a historic speech on the floor of the US House of Representatives. A Democratic member of Congress from California, Douglas took advantage of her international...