Women’s History Month was first just a local celebration that was located in Santa Rosa, California and it wasn’t until the year 1978 when The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women planned and made “Women’s History Week”. The week of March 8th, 1980, former president Jimmy Carter proclaimed that the week was to be made “National Women’s History Week”.

While citing his proclamation he also said that “Achievements, leadership, courage, strength, and love of the women who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well.” It wasn’t until later president that the month of March was soon declared “Women’s History Month” by Congress. Women’s History Month is a month that is surrounded around women and how they have accomplished and earned in our society and cultures. There are many others reasons as well why we celebrate this month.

Although during this month the accomplishments and success that women have made in our history are celebrated, there are also many other women that are celebrated during this month women who have made a difference in our lives and our homes. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher, Rosie the Riveter, and Betty Friedan are some of the women that are mainly associated with the month of March but there are other women that are also celebrated for their accomplishments and work that they did. 

Staton was the author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of woman’s rights and suffrage movements that guided well into the 20th century. Harriet Tubman was enslaved, escaped, and helped others gain their freedom again and she was also a conductor of “The Underground Railroad”. Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo as a pilot, Earhart also helped found the Ninety-Nines, an organization of female aviators. Roosevelt fought for women’s rights at both home and abroad as well as in professional and political positions. 

Inventor Hedy Lamar, scientist Dian Fossey, mathematician Katherine Johnson, and astronauts Sally Ride and Mae C. Jemison are just some of the examples of women that have made history. Hedy Lamar was dubbed “The Mother of Wi-Fi” since she was the one who pioneered the technology that we now have such as GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. Fossey was the one who made a discovery in gorillas, she had spent about 18 years with the animals in their natural habitat in Rwanda her studies mainly revolved around the gorillas’ behavior and how they acted.

Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in the year 1983. Jemison became the first African-American woman to travel to space and every day all of these women became a huge inspiration for not just young women and children but as well as for everyone. These women and many more to come are truly making a difference and if weren’t for these women we wouldn’t have the things that we now have.