Posts Tagged ‘Women’s History Month’
International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month: What Do You Want to Be?
“What do you want to be?” we ask our daughters and sons when they are growing up.
Barack Obama poses this question to elementary school children in this delightful video called “I Want to Be” that looks at political leadership of women through American history. Take a look and ask yourself the same question: what do you want to be next?
This video is just in time for International Women’s Day– March 8–and Women’s History Month, celebrated throughout March. “Celebrated” is the right word for where women are today, too: on the cusp of a great leaping point toward true equality and even in some instances, parity.
Watch and see where U.S. women are in national political leadership as compared to other countries. You’ll find interesting vignettes of women shattering barriers, others who didn’t succeed but paved the way for the next woman who tried, and some facts that might surprise you.
Read MoreFebruary 2006 Newsletter
“Well behaved women rarely make history”
~Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Honor Our Mothers by Celebrating Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day on March 8.
Here’s a little background on Women’s History Month: In my youth and up until the 1970’s, women’s history was virtually nonexistent the public school curriculum or in public consciousness. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women first initiated a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978. They chose the week of March 8 to make International Women’s Day the focal point of the observance.
Read MoreJanuary 2006 Newsletter
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy”
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Best wishes for the Brave New Year
New is good. What did you do new last year? I left a 30-year career of social movement leadership to become a solo practitioner writing and speaking about my passions. I got my ears pierced so I can wear those beautiful dangly earrings.
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