Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981. Congress  authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week.”

Women’s History Month is a global celebration of women’s political, economic, and social accomplishments during the past years.

This is celebrated around the world in different ways. The appreciation for women is showed with festivals, educational initiatives, and things like giving women gifts or flowers.

Growing out of a small-town school event in California, Women’s History Month is a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture and society. The United States has observed it annually throughout the month of March since 1987. The 2012 theme, “Women’s Education, Women’s Empowerment,” honors pioneering teachers and advocates who helped women and other groups gain access to advanced learning.

Women have developed and accomplished many things that people thought they couldn’t do. Women have done a LOT to help the progression of contemporary society. For example, women wouldn’t be able to vote til this day if it wasn’t for suffragettes fighting for it. Even though the computer programming field is mainly dominated by men, the first computer programmer was a women.

The first American flag was sewn by a woman. The exhibition from the rich collections of the Library of Congress brings to light remarkable but little-known contributions made by North American women to two popular art forms- illustration and cartooning.