We like to celebrate
this event all month! Through a variety of programs with guest speakers,
films, displays, and articles, we highlight notable women in history
and look at the latest focus among today's gender historians.
Public
Law 101-6 designates March as Women's History month observed through
related programs, ceremonies, and activities. The law was passed in
1989 in order to recognize women's contributions, including:
"Whereas
American women have played and continue to play a critical economic,
cultural, and social role in every sphere of the life of the Nation
by constituting a significant portion of the labor force working inside
and outside of the home;
Whereas
American women of every race, class, and ethnic background served
as leaders in the forefront of every major progressive social change
movement;
Whereas
American women have been leaders, not only in securing their own rights
of suffrage and equal opportunity, but also in the abolitionist movement,
the emancipation movement, the industrial movement, the civil rights
movement, and other movements, especially the peace movement, which
create a more fair and just society for all; and
Whereas
despite these contributions, the role of American women in history
has been consistently overlooked and undervalued, in the literature,
teaching and study of American history."
"If
particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined
to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws
in which we have no voice or representation."
-Abigail
Adams
