Women's History Month  Tags: women's_history_month women's_and_gender_studies  

"Women's History Month are among the few holidays that have remained relatively uncommercialized in the United States. No advertisements tell you what to buy, how to celebrate, or why you should do so. Yet these March commemorations reveal a great deal about the role women have played in history--as well as about how women have struggled to preserve their history" (Rosen, Ruth. "Why Women's History Month?" The Chronicle of Higher Education 46.26, 2000).

So what should you do to celebrate the month of March? Browse this guide, make comments, search Academic Search Complete, and celebrate all women around you!

For a more in-depth guidance on doing research in Women's and Gender Studies, check out our Gender Studies Libguide (coming soon).

National Women’s History Month’s roots go back to March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. 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. Every year since, Congress has passed a resolution for Women’s History Month, and the president has issued a proclamation.

Population: 153.6 million

Earnings: $32,649 median annual

Voting: 65%

For more statistics dealing with volunteering, sports, jobs please check U.S. Census.

(The image from Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.)

March 4
3:00 147 Greenwood Library

Women's Health 101
Margo Pott's, R.N. University Clinician

March 19
7:00 pm Jeffers Auditorium loacted in
Stevens Hall (Old Science Bldg)

Debra Davis
Executive Director of the Gender Education Center
A Minnesota-based advocacy and education organization working toward understanding, acceptance and support for the LGBT communities with an emphasis on differently gendered people. This event is being present by Unity Alliance for "Proud to be Out Week" with support from WGS and the office of Multicultural Affairs.

March 20
7:00 pm 207 Hiner

Women, Power and Sovereignty in Medieval Ireland
Amy Eichhorn-Mulligan, Ph.D. University of Memphis
Sponsored by the Department of English and Modern Languages and Women's and Gender Studies in coordination with East Carolina University and Appalachian State University

March 21
8:00 pm Lankford Ballroom

Lancer Productions  A.R.T Trivia Game Show. 
Since March is Women's History month the focus of the game show will be women's history.

March 24
6:00 pm 147 Greenwood Library

The Education of Shelby Knox
a film by Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt
A self-described "good Southern Baptist girl," 15-year-old Shelby Knox of Lubbock, Texas has pledged abstinence until marriage. But she becomes an unlikely advocate for comprehensive sex ed when she finds that Lubbock, where high schools teach abstinence as the only safe sex, has some of the highest rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the state. See the special topics tab on the Women's History Month Research Guide for the trailer and more.

April 1
3:00  147 Greenwood Library

My Love! My Vampire! My Pedophile?!
Rhonda Brock-Servais, Ph.D.
Department of English and Modern Languages