Episode 172: Speaking While Female

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This episode takes a step back in time to look at the history of women as public speakers, and how the past relates to the present. If you look at history books or speech anthologies, you might assume women didn't say very much in public until the 20th century. But that's far from the case. My guest, speechwriter and coach Dana Rubin, has compiled a speech bank of women's speeches going back hundreds of years. Women were speaking up...it's just that HIStory wasn't interested. And that legacy, Dana argues, affects the way women see themselves as speakers today.

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0:44.3	Welcome to the Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.
0:45.7	I'm Ashley Milntight.
0:53.4	This time, it's Women's History Month, and we are taking a historical view of women as public speakers.
0:58.2	Traditionally, stating one's views in public was a man's game,
1:01.5	and women who spoke up got a lot of pushback.
1:03.7	They would say, are you a man?
1:06.5	The insinuation being that if you were standing there speaking,
1:08.8	you were overstepping your role,
1:10.7	stepping out of your gendered role and into the territory of
1:12.8	male behavior.
1:14.0	How the past relates to the present, coming up on the broad experience.
1:27.4	Listen to this snippet from a speech by the actress Dorothy Dandridge in 1963.
1:33.2	She was standing in front of a crowd of 35,000 people at a civil rights rally in Los Angeles,
1:39.5	and she was introducing the main act, Dr. Martin Luther King.
1:48.4	Thank you very much. There have been so many wonderful speakers here this afternoon that I feel just a little bit inadequate in making my
1:56.6	little speech. But I must say I have never spoken for such a worthy cause before such a large
2:05.3	audience. I'm not a speaker, but I have to say what I have worked on that I must say.
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