Women’s History Month 2021

Hello everyone!

March isn’t over yet, and that means that we are still celebrating Women’s History Month. On March 8, we celebrated this year’s International Women’s Day.

Today I wanted to share with you a bit about how Women’s History Month got started. Thanks to the Women’s History Organization for the information.

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 US 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 proclamation designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.”

The National Women’s History Alliance selects and publishes the yearly theme. The theme for Women’s History Month in 2021 captures the spirit of these challenging times. Since many of the women’s suffrage centennial celebrations originally scheduled for 2020 were curtailed, the National Women’s History Alliance is extending the annual theme for 2021 to “Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to Be Silenced.

Of course, this celebration has transcended borders and it is no longer just celebrated in the US. Many countries around the world celebrate Women’s History Month in March, whether it is official or not.

But we shouldn’t celebrate women just one month of the year; women should always be celebrated. The mothers, the daughters, the sisters, the friends, the colleagues, the neighbors…all the women in our lives should be celebrated every single day.

During this celebration, we often talk about the women we admire. The woman I admire the most is my mom. She’s the strongest, most wonderful woman I know. She’s a great example and inspiration to follow not just for me, but also for my nieces.

Thank you to all the strong and amazing women reading this, and also to the incredible men who always support and stand by us!

I’d love to know how you are celebrating Women’s History Month! Make sure to leave me your comments about it and don’t forget to subscribe to my blog!

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Until the next time, take care and stay safe!

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