The roots of National Women’s History Month began March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. International Women’s Day was first observed in 1909.
The public celebration of women’s history began in 1978 as “Women’s History Week” in Sonoma County, California. The week including March 8, International Women’s Day, was selected. In 1981, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD.) co-sponsored a joint Congressional resolution proclaiming a national Women’s History Week. In 1987, Congress expanded the celebration to a month, and March was declared Women’s History Month.
Interesting Statistics:

• Thirty-seven percent of women sixteen or older work in management, professional and related occupations, compared with thirty-one percent of men.

• Revenue for women-owned businesses in 2002 reached more than $939 billion—fifteen percent higher than 1997. There were 116,985 women owned firms with receipts of $1 million or more.

• As of November 1, 2006, there are 152 million females in the United States. That exceeds the number of males (148 million) by 4 million.

• The median annual earnings of women sixteen or older who worked year-round is $32,168 in 2005. Women earned seventy-seven cents for every dollar earned by men.

Two major factors contributed to the emergence of women’s history. The women’s movement of the sixties caused women to question their invisibility in traditional American history texts. The movement also raised the aspirations as well as the opportunities of women, and produced a growing number of female historians. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the early women’s historians, stated, “…without question, our first inspiration was political. Aroused by feminist charges of economic and political discrimination . . . we turned to our history to trace the origins of women’s second-class status.”
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
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