During this great month- I Will Survive will be sharing great information about women of triumph. She may have been a breast cancer survivor, she may be recently diagnosed with breast cancer and you want to honor her to give her hope, or she may have lost the battle to breast cancer. If she fits the above categories- please share so we can honor these women all month on our Facebook page.
Facts: As recently as the 1970’s, women’s history was virtually an unknown topic in the K-12 curriculum or in general public consciousness. To address this situation, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women initiated a “Women’s History Week” celebration for 1978.
The week March 8th, International Women’s Day, was chosen as the focal point of the observance. The local Women’s History Week activities met with enthusiastic response, and dozens of schools planned special programs for Women’s History Week. Over one-hundred community women participated by doing special presentations in classrooms throughout the country and an annual “Real Woman” Essay Contest drew hundreds of entries. The finale for the week was a celebratory parade and program held in the center of downtown Santa Rosa, California.
http://www.nwhp.org/whm/history.php
International Women’s Day was first observed in 1909, but it wasn’t until 1981 that Congress established National Women’s History Week to be commemorated the second week of March. In 1987, Congress expanded the week to a month.
http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-facts/womens-history-month-facts/
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