Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed a resolution that authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week.” In 1987, March was proclaimed “Women’s History Month”, and Congress continues to pass resolutions annually. Women’s History Month celebrates the contributions and achievements women have made to the United States in fields such as science, technology, arts and social justice. Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope
Did you know:
- Women couldn’t get credit cards on their own until 1974 when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 was passed.
- In 1901, Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel, and survive!
- In 1983 Sally Ride, NASA physicist and astronaut, became the first American woman to go to outer space.
- Women have better senses of smell and taste. They have more tastebuds and 50 more neurons in their olfactory bulbs—the part of the brain responsible for processing smells- than men.
- The circular saw was invented by Tabitha Babbitt in 1812. At the time, men used a pit saw that required two people and only worked in one direction. Tabitha attached blades to her spinning wheel creating the very first circular saw.