Their history and their accomplishments deserve our praise, respect, and gratitude year-round. Author: Randolph Terrance Sturdivant Updated: 7:44 AM EST March 2, 2021
WASHINGTON March is Women’s History Month here in the United States. A month reserved to commemorate and celebrate the contributions of women in history, and the current day.
Historian Gerda Hedwig Lerner and The National Women’s History Alliance founded Women’s History Week in 1978.
It was well received, and President Jimmy Carter put his official stamp on it by presidential proclamation in 1980. Congressional support followed, and by 1986 recognition had spread across the country, with the week growing to a month in 14 states. In was in 1987 that Congress made it official nationwide.