Real Women Rock: Women’s History Month

Female educators in Santa Rosa, Calif., started the tradition of celebrating Women’s History Month in March 1978. A group of women founded the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women, which eventually became the National Women’s History Project, with a simple goal: make the world aware of women’s accomplishments and ensure that women are not erased from history. Women’s History Month has been observed in March ever since.

The NWHP found success not by talking about “extraordinary discrimination, racism, homophobia, and class issues,” said one of the group’s co-founders, Molly Murphy MacGregor, in 2000, but by discussing, “What have women done about it?”

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Haley Strack

Haley Strack is a former staff writer at National Review.

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Female educators in Santa Rosa, Calif., started the tradition of celebrating Women’s History Month in March 1978. A group of women founded the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women, which eventually became the National Women’s History Project, with a simple goal: make the world aware of women’s accomplishments and ensure that women are not erased from history. Women’s History Month has been observed in March ever since.

The NWHP found success not by talking about “extraordinary discrimination, racism, homophobia, and class issues,” said one of the group’s co-founders, Molly Murphy MacGregor, in 2000, but by discussing, “What have women done about it?”