March Is National Women's History Month

March is National Women’s History Month. Back in 1978, it was celebrated as “Women’s History Week” with a proclamation by President Jimmy Carter. By 1981, Women’s History Week was a joint Congressional resolution and by 1987, Congress, recognizing that one week was insufficient, expanded the celebration of women in history to an entire month.

Since 1911, the World has been celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8, but we are catching up.

Many question the relevance of National Women’s History Month; perhaps it’s those same individuals who question the importance of Black History Month. In order to justify NWHM’s significance, we must reflect on the evolution of women from the past to the present. Certainly, the Feminist movement of the Sixties was the impetus for women’s awakening. For hundreds of years, women, although they contributed equally to history, scientific and medical progress, and a myriad of other fields and disciplines, were invisible, ignored in classrooms, in history books, in the media and in the workplace.

The renowned writer, Virginia Woolf, communicated the sentiment quite eloquently. “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.”

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