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In 1987, after being petitioned by the National Women's History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as Women's History Month. [10] Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women's History Month. [10]
Joan Wagnon was born Oct. 17, 1940, in Arkansas. Among the titles she held during her career were Kansas state representative (1983-1994 for District 55), Topeka's first female mayor (1997-2001 ...
Women’s History Month began as a local week-long celebration in Santa Rosa, California in 1978, according to the online National Women’s History Museum. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma ...
Every March, we celebrate women's contributions to history and present-day society with Women’s History Month. “Feminists in the 1970s critiqued the exclusion and lack of recognition of women ...
Rosa Parks. Susan B. Anthony. Barbara Jordan. Sandra Day O’Connor. Madam C.J. Walker. Those are among the women most people think about during Women’s History Month.. I think about my mom, my ...
Molly serves as the Executive Director of the organization which is now known as the National Women's History Alliance. [10] The National Women's History Alliance is the only national clearing house coordinating projects, speakers and curriculum about women's history. The NWHA regularly hosts events to promote the field of women's history and ...
This is a list of women's firsts noting the first time that a woman or women achieved a given historical feat. A shorthand phrase for this development is "breaking the gender barrier" or "breaking the glass ceiling ."
Women have long been at the forefront of gardening, whether passing agricultural traditions from generation to generation, organizing garden clubs and beautification societies, or — in some ...