Women's History Month

Women's History Month 2023

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Stitch 'n Bitch- A Feminist Knitting Group

Stitch 'n Bitch- A Feminist Knitting Group

Monday, September 25th, 2023
Women's Support Group

Women's Support Group

Tuesday, September 26th, 2023
Women's Support Group

Women's Support Group

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
Women's Support Group

Women's Support Group

Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
Women's Support Group

Women's Support Group

Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
Women's Support Group

Women's Support Group

Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
Women's Support Group

Women's Support Group

Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
Women's Support Group

Women's Support Group

Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
Stitch 'n Bitch- A Feminist Knitting Group

Stitch 'n Bitch- A Feminist Knitting Group

Monday, November 13th, 2023
Women's Support Group

Women's Support Group

Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
Stitch 'n Bitch- A Feminist Knitting Group

Stitch 'n Bitch- A Feminist Knitting Group

Monday, November 20th, 2023
Women's Support Group

Women's Support Group

Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
Stitch 'n Bitch- A Feminist Knitting Group

Stitch 'n Bitch- A Feminist Knitting Group

Monday, November 27th, 2023
Women's Support Group

Women's Support Group

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
Women's Support Group

Women's Support Group

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Stitch 'n Bitch- A Feminist Knitting Group

Stitch 'n Bitch- A Feminist Knitting Group

Monday, December 11th, 2023
Women's Support Group

Women's Support Group

Tuesday, December 12th, 2023

 

See highlights from this year's International Women's Day Celebration on March 8, 2022.


A History of Women's History Month

Every year March is designated Women’s History Month by Presidential proclamation. The month is set aside to honor women’s contributions in American history.

Did You Know? Women’s History Month started as Women’s History Week

Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women planned and executed a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978. The organizers selected the week of March 8 to correspond with International Women’s Day. The movement spread across the country as other communities initiated their own Women’s History Week celebrations the following year.

In 1980, a consortium of women’s groups and historians—led by the National Women’s History Project (now the National Women's History Alliance)—successfully lobbied for national recognition. In February 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the Week of March 8th 1980 as National Women’s History Week.

Subsequent Presidents continued to proclaim a National Women’s History Week in March until 1987 when Congress passed Public Law 100-9, designating March as “Women’s History Month.” Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, each president has issued an annual proclamations designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.”

The National Women’s History Alliance selects and publishes the yearly theme. 


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