Topics: Holidays and Special Days : Women's History Month

This category lists pages and sites related to Women's History Month. Observed each March, Women's History Month began as a single week and a local event. In 1978, Sonoma County, California, sponsored a women's history week to promote the teaching of women's history. In 1981, the U.S. Congress declared the week a national observance, and in 1987, they expanded it to the full month of March.