Hello students, it’s Women’s History Month! 

Let’s celebrate the origin of Women’s History Month and the impact that it made. Women’s history month first started when a teacher from Sonoma county, California took notice of the fact that women’s history was never brought up in her student’s history books. She then helped create a week that was dedicated to teaching her students about the powerful women that made an impact. The word of Womens History Week was soon spread throughout the country gaining more and more popularity and soon getting the attention of the white house. Eventually, President Regan delivered an announcement declaring women’s history week as an official week which a few years later led to the Women’s National History Project petitioning Congress into extending the week into a month. Finally in March of 1987 Women’s History Month became the month that we celebrate to this day.

Why is this month important?

We as a society need to bring attention to the achievements of women that have had their voices taken from them and spread awareness on the recurring issues that women of color and trans women face. It’s also important to recognize the new opportunities that the women of our youth have received. According to the National Women’s History Alliance this year’s theme is “Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope,” created to honor the caregivers and frontline workers that helped us through the pandemic and to recognize the ways that women of all cultural backgrounds have found hope and healed throughout history.